[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That throngs; crowding or crowded; assembling or assembled in large numbers; going in a crowd.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, II. (Arb.), 67. Theare weare the enymyes with thronging cluster asembled.
1600. Holland, Livy, I. xiv. 11. All at once the enemies in thrunging manner sallied forth.
1697. Potter, Antiq. Greece, I. viii. (1715), 41. Too weak to support the vast weight of thronging Multitudes.
1827. Keble, Chr. Y., S. Matt., v. Such brief rest As thronging cares afford.
1871. R. Ellis, Catullus, lxiv. 33. Thronging hosts uncounted, a company joyous approaching.
Hence Throngingly adv.
1624. Gee, Hold Fast, 52. A glorious spectacle … fit for vs to step out of our dores and throngingly to behold.
1731. Bailey, Throngingly, crowdingly.
1737. Ozell, Rabelais, III. xxxiv. 231. The good Ladies throngingly, and as in a hudled Crowd, pressing hard on the Backs of one another, ran thrusting and shoving who should be first at the setting open of the forbidden Box.
