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tiding

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Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
10
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈtaɪdɪŋ/

Definition of tiding

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (archaic, literary, plural-normally)News; new information.
    “For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.”
    “[…] Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.”
    “Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; […].”
    “But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!”
    “Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin.”
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noun

  1. (archaic, literary, plural-normally)News; new information.
    “For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.”
    “[…] Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.”
    “Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; […].”
    “But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!”
    “Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin.”

verb

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of tide

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Etymology

From a merger of Middle English tiding, tidinge, from Late Old English tīdung, with Middle English tidinde, tidende, from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi (“news, tidings”), both connected to…

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From a merger of Middle English tiding, tidinge, from Late Old English tīdung, with Middle English tidinde, tidende, from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi (“news, tidings”), both connected to Old English tīdan (“to befall; happen”). Though it is sometimes assumed that the form in -ind/-end is original and later assimilated to -ing, the cognates Dutch tijding and German Zeitung point to inheritance from Proto-West Germanic *tīdungō. By surface analysis, tide (“time”) + -ing.

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