[f. LESSON v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. LESSON; the action of giving a lesson or lessons; instruction, admonition.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. cxxxii. 811. No longer any lessoning or warnings to be hearkened vnto.
a. 1619. Fotherby, Atheom., II. i. § 1 (1622), 171. As being conscious vnto himselfe, euen by Natures inward lessoning, that his seruice is due vnto him [God].
1791. Mad. D’Arblay, Diary, V. v. 220. My last day … was filled with … packing, leave-taking, bills-paying, and lessoning to Mdle. Jacobi.
1812. W. Taylor, in Monthly Mag., XXXIII. 239. Our national usages and lessonings.
1887. Ruskin, Præterita, II. 206. I never needed lessoning more in the principles of the three great arts.
