[f. THOLE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of THOLE v.; suffering, enduring.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 15684 (Cott.). Thoru mi bodi most it pass Þe tholing o þis pine.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 5. Petir … fillid þe office of Crist, in liuing, and in teching, and in þoling.
1562. Turner, Baths, 10 b. According to the complexion of the sicke, and after the suffrance or tholling of the stomack.
1884. Freeman, in Stephens, Life & Lett. II. x. 322. But then that entitles me to the unrevealed tholings [affected archaism].
† 2. Sufferance, permission, allowance, leave. Obs.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxx. (Theodera), 6. Þo þar-to he haf mycht Thru godis tholyne & gret slycht.
1457. Dunfermline Regr. (Bann. Cl.), 344. Rechart be goddis tholyng Abbote of Donfermlyn. Ibid. (1466), 356. I giff and grauntis … full leiffe and tholing and gude will to þe saidis Albot … to mak land stell and Dame forganis my said landis.
