Obs. [f. LOVE v.2 + -ING1.] Praise, laudation; pl., praises, songs of praise.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 13245. Iesus þat well wist … Quarfor sant ion was don o lijf; To þe Iues … In his louing he made sermon.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter ix. 15. Þat I schewe forth to sprede Þine loueynges, euerilkone.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, VI. 283. Now demys, quhethir mair lovyng Suld Tedeus haf, or the king!
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 51. He þat gyues his good to hem þat hauys no myster, he purchases no louynge þerof.
1476. Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1869), I. 33. For the honour and loving of Gode Almichty.
1477. Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 1. To gyue therfore synguler louynges & thankes.
1533. Gau, Richt Vay (1888), 13. Thay that desiris lowine or vane gloir.
1539. Test. Ebor. (Surtees), VI. 83. I … beinge of holl and perfite mynde … lovinge be to God.
1590. A. Hume, Hymns, ii. 32. The maiestie of God was praisd with louings loud on hight.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslie’s Hist. Scot., II. x. 343. He did the legacie and office … with sik lofeng and comment.
1721. Bailey, Lovingis, praises, Scotch.
