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▪ I. subˈduing, vbl. n.
[f. subdue v. + -ing1.]
The action of subdue v.; subdual, subjugation.
c1482J. Kay tr. Caoursin's Siege of Rhodes (1870) ⁋1 The subduynge and oppressynge of the..cytee of Constantynople. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 371 The subduyng of y⊇ flesh and taming of bodily lustes. 1535Coverdale 1 Macc. xiv. 34 What so euer was mete for the subduynge of the aduersaries. 1655Hume in Nicholas Papers (Camden) III. 213 A combination made between France and Cromwell for the subduing of all the Spanish provinces of the Low Countries. 1690Child Disc. Trade (1698) Pref. p. xv, The subduing [= abatement] of interest will bring in multitudes of traders. 1788Encycl. Brit. (1797) I. 276/2 None of them [sc. harrows] are sufficient to prepare for the seed any ground that requires subduing. 1875Encycl. Brit. I. 335/1 For the more speedy subduing of a rough uncultured surface.
▪ II. subˈduing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That subdues; tending to subdue.
1608D. T[uvill] Ess. Pol. & Mor. 66 b, To polish and fashion out his then rough-hewen fortune, with the edge of his subduing sword. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris 118 A stimulating melange of what is most heating, intoxicating, and subduing. 1842Manning Serm. xvi. (1848) I. 228 Not because they are under any subduing dominion of indwelling sin. 1891Conan Doyle Adv. Sherlock Holmes ii, There was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom.
Hence subˈduingly adv., so as to subdue.
1833New Monthly Mag. XXXVII. 301 What goes more subduingly to the heart than the author's poem to his sick child? 1880Meredith Tragic Com. xviii, A hand that she had taken and twisted in her woman's hand subduingly! |
