vbl. sb. [f. VERIFY v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. in various senses; the proving of something; verification.
a. 1325. MS. Rawl. B. 520, fol. 47 b. Wan ha beȝ icleped to uerefihinge, þoru þat þulke i-voched weren in present.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 23. In verefiyng of thys thyng þe fyrst masse … begynnyth thus.
1561–2. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 196. Sik richtis … and documentis as thai will use for verefying of thair content.
1581. Sidney, Apol. Poetrie (Arb.), 37. Zopirus … fayned himselfe in extreame disgrace of his King: for verifying of which, he caused his own nose and eares to be cut off.
1598. Florio, Verificatione, a verifying, an approouing, an auerring.
1632. Le Grys, trans. Velleius Paterc., 168. Catullus second to none in verifying of the worke which he tooke in hand.
a. 1653. Binning, Serm. (1845), 480. For verifying whereof, We appeal to the Knowledge of some Noblemen and Ministers.
1670. Milton, Hist. Eng., II. 79. The verifying of that true sentence, the first shall be last.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Verification, a verifying, or proving.
