[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of coming or drawing near; spec. in Mil. and Hort. = APPROACH sb. 9, 10.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pers. T., ¶ 800. Avoutrie, in Latine, is for to saye, approching of another mannes bedde.
1596. Shaks., Merch. V., II. ix. 88. One that comes before To signifie th’ approaching of his Lord.
1598. [See APPROACH v. 9.]
a. 1674. Clarendon, Hist. Reb. (1703), II. VII. 178. The Officers of Horse … were all for a Storm, and the Foot Officers for Approaching.
