[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. ESTABLISH in its various senses.
c. 1400. Rom. Rose, 6371. No prelate may done so, But it the pope be … That made thilk establisshing.
1413. Lydg., Pilgr. Sowle, IV. xxx. (1483), 80. In the election and establysshynge of chyuetayns ther may be founden errour.
1660. Milton, Free Commw., 451. When we have our Forces … in our hands, to the firm establishing of a Free Commonwealth.
1846. Trench, Mirac., vi. (1862), 188. The words are for the establishing of his trembling faith.
