vbl. sb. Obs. Forms: 1–3 wlatung (1 uulatunc), 3–5 wlating(e, -yng(e, (4 -iynge, -iinge, wlath-, wlatt-). [OE. wlatung, f. wlatian WLATE v.] Loathing, nausea; abhorrence, detestation; occas. an abomination.
c. 725. Corpus Gloss. (Hessels), N 5. Nausatio, uulatunc.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., I. 80. Ʒenime weʓbrædan … & þyʓe hy; ðonne mid micelre wlatunge ʓewiteþ þæt sar on weʓ.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 80. Habbeð wlatunge of þe muðo þet speoweð ut atter.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter lxxxvii. 9. Þai set me wlatinge to þam to be.
c. 1315. Shoreham, I. 697. Hydous hyȝt were to þe syȝte, And to þe tast wlatynge And pyne.
a. 1340. Hampole, Psalter Cant. 516. In þaire wlathyngis þai mouyd [him] till wreth.
1340. Ayenb., 192. God heþ grat wlatiynge of zuych sacrefice.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 98. Þat may be knowe by … wlattynge, whenne þat a man ys fastynge.
a. 1450. Myrc, 894 [782]. Koghe þow not … Lest heo suppose þow make þat fare, For wlatynge þat þou herest þare [in confession].
So † Wlatingness, abhorrence.
1382. Wyclif, Dan. ix. 11. Cursse droppide on vs, and wlatyngnesse [1388 wlatyng; Vulg. detestatio].
