[f. TAUNT v.1 + -ING1.] The action of TAUNT v.1

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1563.  Winȝet, Four Scoir Thre Quest., Wks. (S.T.S.), I. 57. The erroneous assault me be [= by] tanting and mockrie.

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1563.  Homilies, II. Matrimony (1859), 502. How few matrimonies there be without chidings, brawlings, tauntings, repentings.

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1791.  Cowper, Odyss., XVII. 476. A tongue accustom’d much To tauntings.

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1809–11.  Combe, Syntax, XXVI. 356. ’Tis thus I … foil their tauntings with a joke.

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