Also 5 blasynge. [f. BLAZE v.1 + -ING1.]

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  a.  A flaming, burning. b. Shining, splendor.

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 38. Blasynge or famynge of fyre, flammacio.

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1563.  Homilies, II. Excess. Appar. (1859), 316. The more thou garnish thy selfe with these outward blazings.

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1639.  Fuller, Holy War, I. ii. (1840), 2. A fading comet, whose blazing portended the ruin of that nation.

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1859.  G. Wilson, E. Forbes, iv. 99. No needless blazings of phosphorus.

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