vbl. sb. [f. EVIL sb. + DOING.] The action of doing evil.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XII. xxxvii. (1495), 436. In theyr euyll doyng they vse theyr hertes.
1526–34. Tindale, 1 Pet. iii. 17. It is better … that ye suffre for well doynge then for evyll doynge [1611 euill doing, 1881 (Rev.) evil doing].
1682. Sec. Plea Nonconf., 59. His Approbation, which he never gave to Evil-doing.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 576. The penalties annexed to evil-doing.
