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動詞

smiting

1. present participle and gerund of smite

語源 2

From 中期英語 smytinge, smytynge, equivalent to smite +‎ -ing.

名詞

smiting (plural smitings)

1. The act of one who smites.
   • 0300, Valmiki, The Ramayana of Valmiki: A Complete Modern English Translation‎, Hari Prasad Shastri, page 180:

     How can I revoke that decision made in consultation with my ministers and friends desiring my welfare, causing confusion, as the sudden smiting of an army by the enemy.

   • 1731, Great Britain Parliament House of Commons, Parliamentary Papers‎, HMSO, page 39:

     Two were the smitings of Governor Grey.

   • 1768, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Company, The Encyclopaedia Britannica Volume IV‎, page 576:

     In very early times each year was named after some important event in it, e.g., “The year of the first smiting of the East,” and was at the same time connected with the reigning king.

   • 1800, American Tract Society, Tracts of the American Tract Society: General Series‎, American Tract Society, page 9:

     His end in smiting was to bring your heart nearer to him, by removing what estranged it.

   • 2009, Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue, page 275:

     When her sisters talked about the Bible it was all the Sermon on the Mount and the Song of Solomon, Proverbs and Psalms; never smitings and plagues.

アナグラム

• MiSTing, misting, mitings, timings