vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXCHANGE.

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1553.  Eden, Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.), 17. At which exchaunging of wyues, one of them speaketh to another after this manner.

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1594.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., II. i. (1611), 129. This was the ancient maner in Israel concerning redeeming and exchanging.

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1671.  H. M., trans. Erasm. Colloq., 385. Doth God accept of such exchangings of souls?

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1819.  in Picton, L’pool Munic. Rec. (1886), II. 339. Renewal of leases and the exchanging of lives thereon.

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