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Tiding means (archaic or literary, usually in the plural) News; new information..
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/ˈtaɪdɪŋ/ · noun
(archaic or literary, usually in the plural) News; new information..
For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
[…] Adoniiah sayde vnto him, Come in, for thou art a valiant man, and bringest good tidings.
Day after day passed away without bringing any other tidings of him than the report which shortly prevailed in Meryton of his coming no more to Netherfield the whole winter; […].
But yet it is pity we had lost tidings of our souls: actually we shall have to go in quest of them again, or worse in all ways will befall!
Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin.
In the same year as the Furness objection, sadder tidings befell St Pancras Priory at Lewes, in East Sussex. Despite it having the distinction of being the earliest Cluniac monastery in Great Britain, petitions to prevent the Brighton Lewes & Hastings Railway from imposing on its site with its Lewes line failed. The line was approved and, as if as an act of deliberate desecration and assertion of the railways' power, passed over the site of the high altar.
(I am indebted to the prolific substacker Noah Smith for this list of happy tidings.)
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Tiding means (archaic or literary, usually in the plural) News; new information..
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For men be now tratlers and tellers of tales; What tidings at Totnam, what newis in Wales, What ſhippis are ſailing to Scalis Malis? And all is not worth a couple of nut ſhalis.
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