vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXHIBIT in various senses.
1620. Venner, Via Recta, ii. 32. How many precepts ought there to be obserued in the exhibiting of pure wine in respect of the age.
1643. in Select. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793), 312/2. The giving and the exhibiting of the poison.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., III. xi. 106. Wealthy and well-disposed citizens deposited their charitable monies, for the exhibiting to ingenious men at the universities.
