Middle English Dictionary Entry
borwing ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | borwing ger. Also boruthing. |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Action of borrowing, taking on credit; (b) a loan; don (yeven) ~, to lend; taken ~, to borrow.
Associated quotations
a
- ?a1300(c1250) Prov.Hend.(Dgb 86)st.36 : Lipne þou nohut to borewinge [vr. borowing], For þou shalt missen of mani þinge.
- a1350 Prov.Hend.(Hrl 2253)194 : Ȝef þou trost to borewyng, þe shal fayle mony þyng.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.800 : In borwynge of thy neighebores catel in entente neuere to payen.
- c1400(?a1387) PPl.C (Hnt HM 137)18.8 : Eremites..in here selles lyueden Wiþ-oute borwynge oþer beggynge bote of god one.
- a1425 Christ.Belief (LoC 4)20/776 : Wit he [read: yhe] wel, cheuysance þere þen makes ne none, nother thurght trauaile, beggyng, ne boruthyng.
- ?c1430 Wycl.PPPriests (Corp-C 296)277 : Þat þe sotil vsure of riche clerkis & marchaundes be hurled out of lond, & borwyng & lynynge be frely don to pore men for goddis sake.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)44 : Borwynge: Mutuacio.
- (c1454) Pecock Fol.(Roy 17.D.9)145/36 : Þe seid nedi borewer..is þerof wel remembrid in tyme of þe borewyng.
- (a1475) Fortescue Gov.E.(LdMisc 593)118 : Yff a kynge be pore, he shall..make his expences..by creaunce and borowynge, wher through his creauncers wolle wynne vpon hym the iiijth or the vth pene of all that he dispendith.
- a1500(?a1450) GRom.(Hrl 7333)10 : I toke, as in borowing, þe armour of þe ded knyȝt.
b
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Dc 369(1))Prov.22.7 : He that taketh borewing [L accipit mutuum], seruaunt is of the vsurer.
- (c1384) WBible(1) (Dc 369(2))Luke 6.35 : Ȝyue ȝe borwyng [L mutuum date], hopinge no thing therof.
- a1425(c1395) WBible(2) (Roy 1.C.8)Deut.15.6 : Thou schalt leene to many folkis, and thou schalt not take borewyng of ony man.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)44 : Borwynge: mutuum.
2.
The action of becoming a surety or hostage for another's return.
Associated quotations
- a1500 7 Sages(1) (Cmb Ff.2.38)205/1459 : I beseche god, þou lyke no bettur þy clerkes tale tellyng, Then dud þe squyer his cosyns borowyng.