▪ I. chiding, vbl. n.
(ˈtʃaɪdɪŋ)
[OE. c{iacu}ding, c{iacu}dung f. chide v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. chide.
† 1. Quarrelling with angry words, contention; vehement expression of displeasure. Obs.
| 1340 Ayenb. 30 Þer is uerst chidinge and þanne wreþe. 1388 Wyclif Ex. xvii. 7 For the chidyng of the sones of Israel. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 74 Chydynge, contencio, litigacio. 1549 Coverdale Erasm. Par. 1 Cor. 20 Nor are we..to lyue in sedicion and chyding, but to lyue in peace and concorde. ? 1656 Bramhall Replic. v. 199 To take away occasion of chiding from his Disciples. 1719 D'Urfey Pills (1872) III. 141 There's no such joy as Chiding. |
2. Scolding, reproof, rebuke.
| c 893 K. ælfred Oros. iv. xii. §2 For his cidinge and þurh his lare. a 1000 Psalms (Spelman, Trin. MS.) ciii. 8 [civ. 7] (Bosw.) Of cydunge ðinre hi fleoþ. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 415 Shal neuere chalangynge ne chydynge chaste a man so sone As shal shame. 1535 Coverdale Ps. xvii[i]. 15 The foundacions of the round worlde were discovered at thy chiding (o Lorde). 1697 Bp. Patrick Comm. Ex. iv. 14 No Punishment followed his anger but only a Chiding. 1774 Mrs. Chapone Improv. Mind II. 74 Nothing so much weakens authority as frequent chiding. 1877 Bryant Litt. People of Snow 283 As they came With gentle chidings ready on their lips. |
3. Brawling or angry noise: spec. of fox-hounds. Also fig. of wind, waters, etc.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. iv. i. 120 They bayed the Beare With hounds of Sparta; neuer did I heare Such gallant chiding. 1649 Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. ii. xii. 42 The chiding of the winds and waters. 1711 Budgell Spect. No. 116 ¶7 The Chiding of the Hounds. 1818 Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xxi, The angry chidings of the inhabitants of the hive. 1858 O. W. Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. v, The chiding of the sharp-tongued bell. |
▪ II. ˈchiding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That chides, that gives loud and vehement utterance to displeasure; brawling, scolding, rebuking.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 143 Þe prude, þe fordrunkene, þe chidinde sculen beon iwarpen ine eche pine. c 1386 Chaucer Wife's Prol. 279 Droppyng hous, and eek smoke, And chydyng wyves maken me to fle. 1568 Bible (Bishops') Prov. xxi. 19 Better to dwel in the wildernesse, then with a chiding and an angry woman. 1608 Shakes. Per. iii. i. 32 Thou hast as chiding a nativity, As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make. 1648 Herrick Hesper. (Grosart) I. 26 Chiding streams betray small depth below. 1800 Bloomfield Farmer's Boy, Autumn 258 The sound Of distant sportsmen, and the chiding hound. |
Hence ˈchidingly adv., ˈchidingness.
| 1552 Huloet, Chidingly, or after the manner of chydynge. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 22 How often haue I..chidingly communed with thy soule? 1677 Gilpin Dæmonol. (1867) 202 Gregory the Great writes chidingly to Serenus, bishop of Marseilles. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. xxiii. 600 Mayne..wrote chidingly to Washington. 1880 M. B. Betham-Edwards Forestalled I. i. ix. 144 Smiling on his young wife with pensive chidingness. |