[f. ESCAPE v.] The action of the vb. ESCAPE. Also attrib.
c. 1325. Coer de L., 2122. The messengers went out ful swythe; Of their escaping they were blithe.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. v. 9. That God should … open him an escaping place.
1650. Bp. Jer. Taylor, Fun. Sermon, 14. Such escapings we must reckon to be an extraordinary fortune.
1856. Mrs. Browning, Aur. Leigh, V. 20. The great escaping of ecstatic souls.
