[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That quells, in senses of the vb.
1581. T. Howell, Deuises (1879), 211. Through quelling cares that threat my woful wrack.
1602. Carew, Cornwall, 125 b. The imaginary Prince receiued a quelling wound in his head.
1641. Milton, Ch. Govt., II. iii. The heaviest and most quelling tyranny.
1894. Mrs. H. Ward, Marcella, I. 124. Lord Maxwell had written him a quelling letter.
