[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That chides, that gives loud and vehement utterance to displeasure; brawling, scolding, rebuking.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 143. Þe prude, þe fordrunkene, þe chidinde sculen beon iwarpen ine eche pine.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Wife’s Prol., 279. Droppyng hous, and eek smoke, And chydyng wyves maken me to fle.
1568. Bible (Bishops’), Prov. xxi. 19. Better to dwel in the wildernesse, then with a chiding and an angry woman.
1608. Shaks., Per., III. i. 32. Thou hast as chiding a nativity, As fire, air, water, earth, and heaven can make.
1648. Herrick, Hesper. (Grosart), I. 26. Chiding streams betray small depth below.
1800. Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, 258. The sound Of distant sportsmen, and the chiding hound.
Hence Chidingly adv., Chidingness.
1552. Huloet, Chidingly, or after the manner of chydynge.
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 22. How often haue I … chidingly communed with thy soule?
1677. Gilpin, Dæmonol. (1867), 202. Gregory the Great writes chidingly to Serenus, bishop of Marseilles.
1876. Bancroft, Hist. U.S., V. xxiii. 600. Mayne … wrote chidingly to Washington.
1880. M. Betham-Edwards, Forestalled, I. I. ix. 144. Smiling on his young wife with pensive chidingness.
