tiding

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(9) "Take my swift-footed steel for thy tiding,

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  1. noun A piece of information or news. Often used in the plural: tidings of great joy; sad tidings. See Synonyms at news.

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  • In this chapter of my autobiography I have obeyed my guru's behest and spread the glad tiding, though it confound once more an incurious generation. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
  • No only do I get a bad tiding, but you wrap it in a terrible poem and charge me money for it. —  This Is This
  • The tiding is worse for low-income families, who are more vulnerable to the slightest market fluctuations.
  • This is what will represent the tiding-over from now until the president can implement his social plans. —  AltWeeklies.com Site Feed
  • By the righteousness of God, O beloved friend, through this glad-tiding the ailing are cured and every mouldering bone is quickened. —  Bahíyyih Khánum
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English tiding, perhaps from Old Norse tīdhendi, events, from tīdhr, occurring; see dā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from (a) Middle English tiding, tydinge, tideng, tithinge, from Anglo-Saxon *tīdung = Dutch tijding = Middle Low German tiding = Middle High German zītunge, German zeitung (cf. Swedish tidning), news, information; verbal noun of Anglo-Saxon tīdan, etc., happen: see tide, v. (b) Mixed with Middle English tidinde, tithende, tithinde, from Icelandic tīdhindi = Danish tidende, literally things happening, plural present participle of *tīdha = Anglo-Saxon tīdan, happen: see tide.
 

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