[f. prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb in various senses.
1382. Wyclif, Prol. Bible, ii. 3. In the tyme of Antecrist, and of vnbyndyng of Sathanas. Ibid. (1382), 1 Cor. vii. 27. Thou art boundyn to a wyf, nyle thou seke vnbyndyng.
c. 1400. trans. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh., 101. But it nedys be doon with consideracion … yn byndynge, & vnbyndynge.
1598. Florio, Stralciamenti, vntanglings, vnbindings, vntyings.
1641. Milton, Animadv., 52. There comes another strange Gardener that … challenges as his right the binding or unbinding of every flower.
1875. Poste, Gaius, III. (ed. 2), 443. Nothing more natural than the likeness of the means of binding and of unbinding.
