Obs. [f. LEESE v.1 + -ING1.] Losing, loss. Also occas. destruction, perdition.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. V. 93. Of his leosinge I lauhwe … Ac for his wynnynge I wepe.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 369. It is … mooste lykynge to þe fende and lesynge of soulis.
c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 37. I suppose þat a wounde be compound wiþ holownes & lesynge of fleisch & of skyn.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 298/2. Lesynge, or thyngys loste,… perdicio.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 133/2. She … conceyued the sonne of God and was delyueryd without leesyng of her virgynyte.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. xcviii. 119. They of Vannes were in moost ieopardy, and in peryll of lesyng.
1585. Parsons, Chr. Exerc., I. vi. 49. The offence of God, that is the leesing of his friendship by that sin if we do it.
