[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. BETRAY in various senses; betrayal.
1382. Wyclif, Wisdom xvii. 11. No thing forsothe is drede, but … betraȝyng of the helpis of thoȝt.
1483. Cath. Angl., 30. A Betraynge, delatura, prodicio.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 35. The conception of Sampson was a figure of the incarnation of Christ. Ioseph, of his betraying.
1647. W. Browne, Polex., I. 105. We will … never more finde fault with her betrayings.
1678. Yng. Man’s Call., 8. It were no betraying of the sacred principles of religion.
