[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXCLUDE.
1581. J. Bell, Haddon’s Answ. Osor., 505 b. The life and the health of the body is nothing els, but an excluding of death and Sickenesse.
1657–8. Burton’s Diary (1828), II. 428. The excluding of the old peerage, which have right and are a considerable party.
1662. Stillingfl., Orig. Sacr., III. ii. § 18. We need not fear … the excluding of a Deity from being the prime efficient cause of the world.
