vbl. sb. Obs. or arch. [f. TROW v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb TROW; belief; faith, creed; opinion, notion, idea. † To trowing, to be believed, worthy of belief (cf. to trow, TROW v. 3 c).
a. 1300. Cursor M., 25088 (Cott.). To haf wit santes communing; Þis es a pointe of yr truing [Gött. truyng, Fairf. trowing].
1303. R. Brunne, Handl. Synne, 498. For whan þou trowyst yn a fals þyng Þe deuyl hyt shewyþ for þat trowyng.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), III. 401. Nectanabus seide þis sawe, and was a wicche, and þerfore it is nevere þe bettre to trowynge. Ibid., V. 89. So seiþ martilogie, þat is more to trowynge [L. credendum] þan cronicles of auctours þat beeþ nouȝt i-knowe. Ibid., VI. 195. It is nouȝt to trowynge [L. opinandum] þat þis Iohn is Iohn the Ermyte.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxxiv. 154. Þai be of diuerse lawes and diuerse trowyngs.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., I. i. (Rolls), 5. Thre trowingis or opinions ben causis … of manie … errouris.
1491. Caxton, Vitas Patr., I. c. (W. de W., 1495), 131 b/2. By the thynges passed he had some trowynge of those that were to come.
c. 1570. in Redforde, Play Wit & Sc. (Shaks. Soc.), 57. Ever in trowing and never in knowinge.
So † Trowing ppl. a. Obs., believing; in first quot. as sb. one who believes.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 18719 (Cott.). Þe truand [Fairf. trawande] and þe baptist bath Þai sal be saue.
c. 1400. Apol. Loll., 61. Crist is end of þe lawe to riȝtfulnes to ilk man trowing.
1483. Cath. Angl., 394/2. Trowinge, credulus.
