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Quotation dates: 1375, 1457-1458, 1520-1535
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Thanking, -yng, vbl. n. [ME and e.m.E. pl. thankyngis (Wyclif), þankyngis (c1420-30); Thank v.] The act of giving thanks; the expression of gratitude; thanks. In pl. only in Nisbet as to do thankingis.sing. 1375 Barb. xx 232.
He come and knelit to the king And on this wis maid him thanking. ‘I thank ȝow gretly Lord,' said he, ‘Off mony larges [etc.]’ 1457–8 Acts II 52/2.
Pray … to Gode and gif thankyng to him that sende thame sik a prince c1520-c1535 Nisbet Philipp. i 6.
That your thanking abonnd in Crist Jesu in me, be my cummyng eftsone to you 1535 Stewart 11586.
The greit thanking … maid to this … Gildo 1535 Stewart 25654.
The curtosie that this Aurelius Schew to thir tua with thanking meruelouspl. c1520-c1535 Nisbet Matth. xv 36.
He tuke vij laaues and v fischis, and did thankingis, and brak, and gafe to his discipilis c1520-c1535 Nisbet Philipp. iv 6.
In al prayere and beseking, with doing of thankingis c1520-c1535 Nisbet 1 Thess. ii 13.
We do thankingis to God without cesing c1520-c1535 Nisbet 1 Tim. ii 1.
I beseke … that besekingis, prayeris, askingis, doing of thankingis, be made for almen
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