betraying
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
betraying
- present participle and gerund of betray
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English betraying, bytrayenge, betraȝyng, equivalent to betray + -ing.
Noun edit
betraying (plural betrayings)
- betrayal
- 1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=1 to 5):
- Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]