vbl. sb. [f. TRESPASS v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TRESPASS.

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a. 1340.  Hampole, Psalter, c. 4. Doand trispasyngis i hatid [Vulg. facientes preuaricaciones odiui].

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1388.  Wyclif, Rom. iv. 15. Where is no lawe, there is no trespas, nethir is trespassyng.

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1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 266. They winking at their own trespassings.

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1852.  Chr. Rossetti, Poems (1904), 148/2. I … weep for my trespassing.

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1886.  Pall Mall G., 7 Oct., 4/2. Trespassing, in English law … is distinctly not a criminal offence; the trespasser cannot be ‘given into custody,’ as the notice boards have it.

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