[f. QUAKE v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. QUAKE in various senses.
c. 825. Vesp. Psalter liv. 6. Eʓe & cwaecung cwomun ofer mec.
c. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., I. 504. Wæs se munt Garganus bifiʓende mid ormætre cwacunge.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 6894. Þat heo … steppe mid folle vot wiþoute quakinge.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Anel. & Arc., 214. Turnid is in quakynge all my daunce.
c. 1450. Lydg. & Burgh, Secrees, 1652. Rennyng afftir mete and also rydyng,… cause wyl a seknesse callyd quakyng.
1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VIII. (1550), 199 b. He and the Quene, and the Ladyes, fled out of their Palace … and sodeinly the quakyng seassed.
1656. Ridgley, Pract. Physick, 136. The Symptoms, as quaking, nauseating, do shew … new matter is recollected.
1855. Bain, Senses & Int., II. iv. § 18 (1864), 285. A tremulous quaking is the characteristic of Fear.
1875. Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. II. xxviii. 107. The incessant quaking of the ground for several successive months.
† 2. spec. with ref. to the behavior of the early Quakers; hence, Quakerism. Obs.
1653. H. R., Brief Rel. Irrelig. North. Quakers, 17. Their Quakings are very like the Fits of that Child mentioned, Mark. 9. 17, 18. 20. 26.
1669. (title) Truth-Triumphant: in a Dialogue between a Papist and a Quaker: Wherein (I suppose) is made Manifest that Quaking is the Off-Spring of Popery.
1671. R. Head, Eng. Rogue, II. xxxii. 307. Falling from Ranting to Quaking.
