[f. WOUND v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the verb; the fact of being wounded. Also fig.
13[?]. K. Alis., 3737 (Laud MS.). Riȝth also he was arise, or his woundyng he was agrise.
a. 1400–50. Wars Alexander, 4795. Þare was hurling on hiȝe,… Quat of wrestling of wormes, & wonding of kniȝtis.
a. 1425. trans. Arderne’s Treat. Fistula, etc., 52. If any man … be smyten in any party of þe legge violently and without wondyng of þe skynne.
1518. Sel. Cases Star Chamber (Selden), II. 140. I ame Indytyd thear for beatyng and wondyng of one John Holtt.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, I. 2. Nine dayes Apollo bent, and shot, and them with wounding sped.
1633. P. Fletcher, Piscat. Eclog., V. xvi. How can thy eye most sharp in wounding be, In seeing dull?
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, III. iv. An Indictment of Assault, Battery, and Wounding, was instantly prefered against Tom.
1799. W. Nicol, Pract. Planter, 225. All wounding, in pruning, should be performed on, or towards the extremities of boughs which [etc.].
1842. Manning, Serm., xviii. (1848), 267. The sharp inward wounding of the soul.
1890. Retrospect Med., CII. 275. All kinds of head injury from slight concussion to compound comminuted fractures of the skull with wounding of the brain substance.
2. = WOUND sb. 1.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, IV. 65. That this your wounding got, Which irkes you so, he should delay.
1595. Markham, Sir R. Grinvile (Arb.), 78. At length, the Maister … hath procurd The Knight discend, to haue his woundings curd.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), III. 7. The great physician of sin-sick souls … had healed my own woundings.
