vbl. sb. [f. SUPPRESS + -ING1.] = SUPPRESSION (chiefly in sense 1).
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 460. In suppressing of kynges state and destroyynge of obediens of prestis to lordis.
a. 1475. Ashby, Active Policy, 417. Ye must subdewe with al suppressyng Euery persoune … Pretendyng right to your coronacion.
1542–5. Brinklow, Lament. (1874), 120. Your euell suppressynge of the pore.
1561. Reg. Privy Council Scot., I. 186. For the suppressing of malefactouris.
1591. Webbe, in Wilmot, Tancred & Gismund, *3 b. The suppressing of this Tragedie, so worthy for ye presse.
1635. (title) A Proclamation for the Suppressing of profane Swearing and Cursing.
a. 1699. Temple, Ess., Popular Discont., ii. Wks. 1720, I. 265. Some more effectual way … for preventing or suppressing of common Thefts and Robberies.
1711. Addison, Spect., No. 135, ¶ 12. The suppressing of several Particles which must be produced in other Tongues to make a Sentence intelligible.
1753. Scots Mag., XV. 66/2. The suppressing of this insurrection.
So Suppressing ppl. a., that suppresses (in quot., ? oppressing: cf. SUPPRESS v. 6).
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 456. O foolish pride, O suppressing ambition!
