[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb; an instance of this.
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., V. i. 359. Her vrging of her wracke at sea.
1615. Hieron, Wks., I. 606. It is by such vrgings as this, which … it pleaseth Him to make effectuall.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xxv. 133. [It] is manifest enough, by the long and vehement urging.
1721. Bailey, Importunity, an eager pressing or urging.
1838. Lytton, Alice, X. iv. After repeated conferences and urgings.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., xlv. A painful urging of something vague and difficult.
1897. Rhoscomyl, White Rose Anno, 82. One whose vigorous urgings to immediate action had [etc.].
