[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. ENSUE, in various senses.

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1561.  Norton & Sackv., Gorboduc, I. i. (1565), A viij b. In right ensuynge of your life.

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1581.  J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 103 b. The ensuyng of whose studious industry we do not neglect.

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1605.  Verstegan, Dec. Intell., viii. (1628), 242. A iust insuing of the vse of reason.

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