Obs. [f. WEND v. + -ING1.]
† 1. The action of turning or changing; a change or turn. Obs.
c. 897. K. Ælfred, Gregory’s Past. C., xlii. 306. Hit ʓedeð hit self him selfum suiðe unʓelic for ðære ʓelomlican wendinge.
a. 1050. Liber Scintill., xi. (1889), 63. Earfoðe ys færlic wendincg [L. permutatio].
c. 1440. Pallad. on Husb., II. 12. But at the weendyng [L. ubi ad versuram venerint] slake The yook, thyn oxon nekkis forto cole.
2. The action of going; esp. a going away, departure.
13[?]. K. Alis., 920. Nis in this world so siker thyng So is deth, to olde and yyng! The time is nygh of heore wendyng!
13[?]. Guy Warw., 1218. He goþ him to his fader þo, Þat for his wending was ful wo.
c. 1340. Hampole, Psalter, civ. 36. Egipt was fayn in thaire wendynge [L. in profectione eorum].
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 1630. And by my þryft my wendynge out of Troye A-noþer day shal torne vs alle to Ioye. Ibid., Boeth., II. pr. i. (1868), 32. If þou wilt write a lawe of wendyng and of dwellyng to fortune.
c. 1430. Syr Gener. (Roxb.), 9967. She went ageyn with hir meigne; The third day aftir hir wending, [Generides] ther was crovned king.
† 3. A journey. Obs.
13[?]. K. Alis., 328 (Laud MS.). And þer he ordeyneþ his wendyng Toward Darrye þe riche kyng.
1338. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 207. Jon dred þat wendyng, to France wild he nouht. Ibid., 260. Þei hed redy wendyng, at Douer þei toke lond.
[1878. Seeley, Stein, II. 489. Accordingly appeared ‘My Wendings and Wanderings with the Imperial Baron.’]
