[f. BLAZE v.2 + -ING2.]

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  † 1.  Blowing. Obs.

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1535.  Coverdale, Wisdom xvii. 18. Whether it were a blasynge wynde, or a swete song of ye byrdes.

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  † b.  Boastful (? ‘blowing their own trumpet’).

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1533.  Tindale, Answ. to More’s Dial., Wks. III. 107. The blasing hypocrites.

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1549.  Coverdale, Erasm. Par. 2 Cor. xii. 12. Let them never so muche with their blasyng wordes boaste themselves.

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