vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb BUFFET.

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c. 1240.  Lofsong, in Cott. Hom., 207. Ich bide þe … bi his spotlunge, and bufetunge.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, xxi. 5. In spittynge, buffetynge & pungynge with þe thornes.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M., in Spurgeon, Treas. Dav., Ps. lxxxviii. 3. Sharp temptations and strong buffetings of Satan.

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1788.  Burns, Let. R. Ainslie, 3 March. I have been … under much buffetting of the wicked one.

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1826.  Scott, Woodst., I. viii. 196–7. He hath played the man from the beginning of these unhappy buffetings.

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1873.  Black, Pr. Thule, v. 74. The buffetings of wind and rain.

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