[f. QUIVER v.2 + -ING1.] The action of the vb.

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1562.  Turner, Herbal, II. (1568), 23 b. The same … is good … for quiueringe or shakinge.

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1597.  A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 10/1. The foresayed Spasmus hath possessed the vvhole bodye, vvith shakinge & qviveringe.

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1632.  Massinger, Maid of Hon., I. ii. C ij b. Cast not a sheepes eye Vpon the quivering of my calfe.

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1801.  Southey, Thalaba, IX. xxvi. The silver quivering of the element.

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1863.  Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. vi. A momentary quivering of the lip.

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1884.  trans. Lotze’s Logic, 437. The confused notion that … colours [are] merely quiverings of the ether.

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