[f. QUARREL v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. QUARREL.
1546. Bale, Eng. Votaries, I. 72. They wolde … styll vexe hym with olde quarellynges.
1611. Rich, Honest. Age (Percy Soc.), 54. The mind is oppressed with idle thoughts which spurreth on the tongue to contentious quarrelling.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, III. (1724), I. 452. Seimour and he had fallen into some quarrellings.
1734. T. Watt, Vocab. Eng. Lat., 38. You are always making a Quarrelling about nothing.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt (1868), 30. There was no fear of family coolness or quarrelling on this side.
attrib. 1625. Massinger, New Way, V. i. Make not My house your quarrelling scene.
