vbl. sb. [f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of singing anthems.
1829. A. Hallam, in Lockhart, Scott (1839), IX. 331. And full-voiced anthemings the while Swelled from the choir.
1883. T. Lynch, in Homilet. Monthly, May, 442/2.
It is past belief that Christ hath died | |
Only that we unending psalms may sing: | |
That all the gain deaths awful curtains hide, | |
Is an eternity of antheming! |