▪ I. excluding, vbl. n.
(ɛkˈskluːdɪŋ)
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. exclude.
| 1581 J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 505 b, The life and the health of the body is nothing els, but an excluding of death and Sickenesse. 1657–8 Burton's Diary (1828) II. 428 The excluding of the old peerage, which have right and are a considerable party. 1662 Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. ii. §18 We need not fear..the excluding of a Deity from being the prime efficient cause of the world. |
▪ II. exˈcluding, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That excludes or shuts out; exclusive.
| 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals iii. iii. 329 If the Head of the including Faction, offers the Head of the Excluding Party, to assist him..in the Election of one of the Excludents, let him alwayes be suspicious. 1836 E. Howard R. Reefer vi, A sect of..Methodists, more dismal and more excluding. |
Hence exˈcludingly adv.
| a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 30 Who out of that respect are all of them, not excludingly, any one of them, styled, The Lords Anointed. |