Also 6 byryvinge. [f. BEREAVE + -ING1.] The action of the vb. BEREAVE in various senses. Now only gerundial.
1529. More, Comf. agst. Trib., III. Wks. 1232/2. The byryuinge from vs of our wretched worldlye goodes.
c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Hist. Jas. III., Wks. (1711), 45. After this violent bereaving him of his wife.
1648. Milton, Tenure Kings, Wks. 1738, I. 315. The oppressing and bereaving of Religion and their Liberty.
Mod. By bereaving him of his only son.
