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Definition of Rending
1. Adjective. Resembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree. "Heard a rending roar as the crowd surged forward"
Definition of Rending
1. Verb. (present participle of rend) ¹
2. Adjective. that rends ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Rending
1. rend [v] - See also: rend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rending
Literary usage of Rending
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"INTITLED *THE rending IN SUNDER." REVEALED AT MECCA IN THE name of the most
merciful GOD. When the heaven shall be rent in sunder, and shall obey its LORD, ..."
2. The Bookman (1897)
"... Again the rending trumpets rang, Again the phantom notes replied. In galleries,
on straining roofs, At once ten thousand tongues were hushed, ..."
3. The Autobiography of Leigh Hunt by Leigh Hunt (1850)
"A heart-rending spectacle.—Felons and debtors.— Restoration to Freedom. WE parted
in hackney-coaches to our respective abodes, accompanied by two ..."
4. King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain by Lyman Copeland Draper, Anthony Allaire (1881)
"Heart-rending Scenes of the Battle-Field, — The Night after the Action. All the
different corps fought well at King's Mountain. The Burke and Rutherford ..."
5. King's Mountain and Its Heroes: History of the Battle of King's Mountain by Lyman Copeland Draper, Anthony Allaire, Isaac Shelby (1881)
"Heart-rending Scenes of the Battle-Ficld. — The Night after the Action. All the
different corps fought well at King's Mountain. The Burke and Rutherford ..."
6. Journal by General Assembly, Pennsylvania General Assembly. Senate, Pennsylvania (1920)
"And said hill having been read at length the first time, Ordered, To belaid aside
for second rending. Agreeably to order. The Senate proceeded to the first ..."
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