[f. WARFARE v. + -ING2.] That wages war; that serves, or takes part, in war; militant. Also fig.
1549. E. Allen, Jude’s Par. Rev. xxii. 1–4. This militant & warrfarynge churche.
1644. Milton, Areop. (Arb.), 45. He is the true warfaring Christian.
1840. Carlyle, Heroes, iv. (1858), 272. He is the warfaring and battling Priest.
1882. Stevenson, New Arab. Nts., Sire de Malétroit. Lads were early formed in that rough, warfaring epoch.
Hence † Warfaringly adv.
1611. Cotgr., Belliqueusement, martially, warlikely; warfaringly.
