[f. FAULT v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. FAULT in various senses; an instance of this. Obs.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. lix. Nature compleineþ sone of fautyng & of greuaunce.
1622. W. Whately, God’s Husb., 127. Some grosse outward faultings therein.
a. 1665. J. Goodwin, Πλήρωμα τὸ Πνευματικόν; or, A Being Filled with the Spirit (1867), 155. His faulting of the translation … doth not at all commend his skill in the original.
1679. King, in G. Hickes, Spirit of Popery, 50. There has been so much silence and fauting even amongst Ministers.
2. Geol. The process of producing faults, dislocation of strata; an instance of this.
1849. Dana, Geol., xiii. (1850), 574. In the faulting of a rock.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, 345. The most wonderful shiftings and faultings of the beds are observable in the Dronningestol.
