vbl. sb. [f. WRONG v. + -ING1.] The action of doing wrong or acting wrongfully; an instance of this.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. xvii. 395. If remedie of this wronging schulde be do in this wey.
c. 1450. Godstow Reg., 416. Without ony wrongyng of the heires … of the forsaid Thomas.
1549. Coverdale, etc., Erasm. Par. 1 John iv. 51. The man of a worldely spirite prouideth for his owne commoditie at al handes, yea euen with wronging of his brother.
1604. Ho. Comm. Jrnl., I. 218/2. [They] were Instruments of … much wronging and oppressing the People.
1624. Admiralty Crt. Exam., 28 April (MS.). That their shippe might … not bee overpressed with saile to the wrongeinge of her.
1659. Gentl. Call. (1696), 7. A wronging, a calumniating even of the very Devil.
1720. A. Petrie, Rules Good Deportm. (1877), 116. This not only is a wronging of the Magistrate of his Right, but it wrongs all fair Traders.
1867. A. L. Gordon, Ashtaroth, Wks. (1912), 253. Yet I forgive your wronging,… I call your bitters sweet.
