[f. SWADDLER: see -ING2.] Of a Methodist character or practice; Protestant; † canting.
1747. [see SWADDLER].
1758. Wesley, Wks. (1872), II. 449. Swearing he would have none of their swaddling prayers.
1771–2. Ess. fr. Batchelor (1773), II. 126. Like the spiritual eye of a Swadling preacher, uplifted to Heaven in a fervour of devotion.
1787. Minor, 30. The other now resembled a swadling female.
1838. Blackw. Mag., May, 610/2. You’re nothing but a swaddling ould sent ov a saint.
1885. W. J. Fitzpatrick, T. N. Burke, I. 33. No swaddling minister could hold his ground five minutes before them.
