[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That subdues; tending to subdue.
1608. D. T[uvill], Ess. Pol. & Mor., 66 b. To polish and fashion out his then rough-hewen fortune, with the edge of his subduing sword.
1816. J. Scott, Vis. Paris, 118. A stimulating melange of what is most heating, intoxicating, and subduing.
1842. Manning, Serm., xvi. (1848), I. 228. Not because they are under any subduing dominion of indwelling sin.
1891. Conan Doyle, Adv. Sherlock Holmes, ii. There was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom.
Hence Subduingly adv., so as to subdue.
1833. New Monthly Mag., XXXVII. 301. What goes more subduingly to the heart than the author’s poem to his sick child?
1880. Meredith, Tragic Com., xviii. A hand that she had taken and twisted in her woman’s hand subduingly!
