vbl. sb. [f. ARGUE + -ING1.] a. Accusation, fault-finding (obs.). b. Argumentation, argument.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 475. Sche answerde lat be thyn arguynge.
1598. Sylvester, Du Bartas, Job Tri., I. 911. List you now into my Arguing.
1611. Bible, Habb. ii. 1. When I am reproued [marg. upon my reproofe or arguing].
c. 1705. Berkeley, in Fraser, Life (1871), 487. From Locke’s arguings it can’t be proved that colours are not in bodies.
1839. Carlyle, Chartism, v. 141. However obscure the arguings.
