smiting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of smite

plural smitings

1. The act of one who smites.

   Two were the smitings of Governor Grey.

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

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   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.

   0300, Valmiki, The Ramayana of Valmiki: A Complete Modern English Translation, Hari Prasad Shastri, page 180

   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.

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

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

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

   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.

   2009, Christopher Moore, Coyote Blue, page 275