[f. TROUBLE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TROUBLE, or an instance of this (in various senses).
c. 1340. Hampole, Prose Tr., 17. A fantasie caused of trubblyng of þe brayne.
c. 1374. [see TROUBLABLE].
c. 1400. Love, Bonavent. Mirr. (1907), 92. With moche noyse and turblynge prayer wil not wele and deuoutly be seide.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), vii. 23. Þer es na trubling of þe aer thurgh raynes.
c. 1440. Jacob’s Well, 97. Þe feend … louyth dyscord & trubelyng of pes.
1530. Palsgr., 283/1. Troublyng of ones mynde, distraction.
1611. Bible, John v. 4. Whosoeuer then first after the troubling of the water stepped in, was made whole.
1617. Moryson, Itin., I. 208. I thinke they would not haue denied vs wine,… yet to auoide troubling of them, my selfe and my brother carried some flaggons of rich wine.
1842. Parnell, Chem. Anal. (1845), 44. A faint troubling in strong solutions.
1878. F. Ferguson, Life Christ, xviii. 174. The medicinal properties … would be intensified at the time of the periodical natural troublings.
