[f. VENT v.3 + -ING1.] The action of selling; = VENDING vbl. sb.

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  Frequent from c. 1600 to c. 1645.

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1539–3.  Act 24 Hen. VIII., c. 4. Straunge countreis … by the … makyng and ventyng therof are greately enriched.

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1548.  Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1871), II. 144. Vnder the payne of … spayning fra the venting of wyne be the space of ane yeir thairafter.

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1605.  Breton, Old Man’s Lesson, Wks. (Grosart), II. 6/2. The Vinter, the Grocer,… and the Butcher, doe by the venting of their wares, the better maintaine their trades.

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1641.  Milton, Church Govt., II. Wks. 1851, III. 139. How they may suppresse the venting of such rarities and such a cheapnes as would undoe them.

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1656.  Earl Monm., trans. Boccalini’s Advts. fr. Parnass., I. x. (1674), 12. A very spruce Polititian who looked to the venting of Wares.

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