vbl. sb. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of joining or attaching; annexation. (Now mostly gerundial.)

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1611.  Cotgr., Attachement, a tying, fastening, annexing.

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1628.  Layton, Sion’s Plea, 20. Before the annexing of the right of Ecclesiastical jurisdiction to the Crown.

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1736.  Butler, Anal., I. ii. 50. The annexing pleasure to some actions.

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1860.  Motley, Netherl. (1868), I. i. 4. He contemplated annexing … the kingdoms of France, of England and Ireland.

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