minishing, vbl. n.
(ˈmɪnɪʃɪŋ)
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb minish, in various senses.
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvii. (Vincencius) 184, & þare-fore wil nocht ony wyse þou to my Ioy mak lessing, na to my reward menesinge. 1485 Rolls of Parlt. VI. 338/2 Savyng only to the abatement, discharge, mynesyng, and relesyng of the Fee Ferme of the said Towne. 1513 More Rich. III in Stow Ann. (1592) 743 Inticing him to many things highly redounding to the minishing of his honour. 1551 Turner Herbal i. Prol. A iij b, Euery man..will become a Phisician, to the hynderaunce and minishyng of the study of liberall artes. 1651 R. Child in Hartlib's Legacy (1655) 137 The dulling and minishing of the Spirit. 1860 D. Greenwell Patience of Hope 18 [It] has set the ideals of Christ and Humanity so far apart, that the wealth of the one can only be attained through the minishing of the other. |