▪ I. enhancing, vbl. n.
(ɛnˈhɑːnsɪŋ, -ˈhæns-)
[f. enhance v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb enhance.
| 1490 Caxton Eneydos xxviii. 109 Dydo hath defyled vylaynsly the good name and the enhaunsynge of the cytee. 1495 Will Spilman (Somerset Ho.), The bylding & the henhawnesyng of the Rooffe. 1534 More On the Passion Wks. 1292/2 Reseruynge theyr actuall enhaunsynge into heauen vntyll the great mistery of Christes passyon shoulde bee perfourmed. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 963/2 For the inhancing of gold to eight & fortie shillings, & siluer foure shillings the ounce. 1622 Callis Stat. Sewers (1824) 304 For the enhancing of such weres, mills, stanks, stakes, and kiddels. 1637 Sanderson Serm. II. 71 Enhaunsing of fees, trucking for expedition. |
▪ II. † enˈhancing, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That enhances.
| 1382 Wyclif Prov. xxi. 24 The proud man and the enhaunsende hymself [Vulg. arrogans] is cleped vntaȝt. 1590 Greene Orl. Fur. (1861) 90 Saba, whose enhancing streams Cut 'twixt the Tartars and the Russians. 1606 Hieron Wks. I. 44 The engrossing merchant, the enhaunsing husbandman. 1715 M. Davies Ath. Brit. I. 10 A gradual and more enhauncing Augmentation of the Expression. |