▪ I. resisting, vbl. n.
(rɪˈzɪstɪŋ)
[f. resist v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. resist.
| 1482 Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 89 Chesyng rather to dyssymylle..than by her blamyng and resysting stere and moue agenste hem the wrathe..of suche euyl dysposyd persons. 1558 Goodman How to Obey 123 There is nothing in this saying..which can condemne lawfull resisting of vngodlie Rulers. 1614 Donne βιαθανατος (1648) 110 The Devill is overcome by Resisting, but the World and the Flesh by running away. 1742 Richardson Pamela III. 86 This Passion had been heighten'd by my resisting of it. 1760–72 H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) IV. 91 Here has been a large body of the gens d'armes sent for them, so that there was no resisting. |
▪ II. reˈsisting, ppl. a.
[f. resist v. + -ing2.]
That resists or offers resistance. resisting medium (see medium n. 4).
Freq. in modern use as the second element in Combs., as cold-, disease-, dust-, fire-resisting, etc.
| 1593 Queen Elizabeth Boeth. ii. 25 These be not yet remedyes for thy disease, but serues for bellowes against the cure of thy resisting sorowe. 1595 Shakes. John ii. i. 38 Against the browes of this resisting towne. 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. xx. 60 Neither did lesse feare invade his resisting thoughts. 1694 Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1699) 402/1 It would be presently dull'd..by the resisting Sulphur. 1743 Emerson Fluxions 288 The Resistance of a Globe moving in a resisting Medium. 1798 Hutton Curs. Math. (1807) II. 357 The resisting force is equal to the weight that urges it. 1862 Spencer First Princ. ii. v. §56 (1875) 182 Uniform motion in a straight line, implies the absence of a resisting medium. 1863 Geo. Eliot Romola xl, But the resisting thoughts were not yet overborne. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 329 Anything which..tends to diminish the resisting power of the individual. |
Hence reˈsistingly adv.
| 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. 1 John ii. 46 b, Doth not he, that lyueth after such sorte, resistingly denie Christ? 1905 Westm. Gaz. 1 July 17/2 The mob..fell back slowly and resistingly before the rifle volleys of the troops. |