vbl. sb. [f. EXILE v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXILE; an instance of the same; the state of being exiled, banishment, exile. Now only gerundial.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., I. iii. 11. Yif þou hast not knownn þe exilynge of anaxogore.
c. 1380. Antecrist, in Todd, 3 Treat. Wyclif, 116. Whenne cristen men weren compellid bi exilyngis, betyngis & deþis to make sacrifice to ydols.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), II. 343. Cadmus chees his exilynge in Grecia. Ibid. (1398), Barth. De P. R., XVIII. xxv. (1495), 784. The kynge came oute of exilynge.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, I. vii. [He] Humble of his cheare toke his exilinge.
1516. Pynson, Life St. Birgette, in Myrr. our Ladye, p. lv. In the exilynge of a certeyn man I was ouermoche rygorouse.
1635. Sibbes, Soules Confl. (1636), 3. His exiling from Gods house.
