vbl. sb. [f. VOYAGE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb (now usually of journeying by sea).
1611. Cotgr., Voyagement, a voyaging, trauelling, iourneying.
1647. Hexham, I. A viaging, een reysinge.
1706. E. Ward, Wooden World Diss. (1708), 8. He was Monarch of far more Territories than ever he touch’d at in all his Voyagings.
1823. J. Badcock, Dom. Amusem., 165. Native of a port and given to voyaging.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., II. xvii. 182. I deemed it best to keep up the appearance of ordinary voyaging.
1889. Clark Russell, Marooned, xiv. (1891), 97. The marine habits of thought I had carried away with me from my early voyagings.
attrib. 1853. Lynch, Self-Improv., ii. 25. It is now hurrah! for outset on many a voyaging enterprise.
1891. T. Hardy, Tess, xl. I have separated from my wife for personal, not voyaging, reasons.
b. transf. and fig.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. VII. vii. Our poor Convention, after such voyaging, just entering harbour, so to speak, has struck on the bar.
1842. Kingsley, Lett. (1878), I. 112. We will not listen when men tell us that we can reach Him by weary voyaging on the ocean of intellect.
1862. G. Long, trans. M. Aurelius’ Thoughts, ix. § 30. 156. Look down from above on the countless herds of men and their countless solemnities, and the infinitely varied voyagings in storms and calms.
