[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb BROWBEAT; orig., it appears, = ‘scowling, frowning.’
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 486 b. To be afrayd of any her subjects lowring or browbeating.
1693. Locke, Educ., 42. We love not to be uneasie, under constant Rebukes and Brow-beatings.
1765. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 611. He can never secure him from the discouragements and brow-beating of censorious and ill-natued persons.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, III. ii. 68. The brow-beating of a witness.
