vieing

English

Verb

vieing

1. present participle and gerund of vie
   • 1867, John Clark Marshman, The History of India, from the Earliest Period to the Close of Lord Dalhousie’s Administration, volume III, London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, page 340:

     After a pause of a minute or two, however, the firing recommenced with redoubled earnestness, the Bombay and Bengal artillery vieing with each other, and the enemy vieing with both.

   • 1927, The Lyre of Alpha Chi Omega, volume 30, page 548:

     Helen and Mary Hathaway Fell, ’25, have been vieing for the honor of living in the smaller town and Mary, whose place of residence at present, Sumpter, boasts some 250 people loses by a large margin, according to Helen in referring to the population of Culver City.

   • 2009 February 12, Ben Child, “Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington set for Cronenberg spy thriller”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian‎^[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-01-28:

     Ludlum's 1979 novel is set during the cold war era and centres on rival US and Russian spies who have been vieing for supremacy for several decades.

References

• Robert Sullivan (1854) “Practical Rules for Spelling”, in The Spelling-Book Superseded; or, A New and Easy Method of Teaching the Spelling, Meaning, Pronunciation, and Etymology of All the Difficult Words in the English Language; […], 34th edition, Dublin: William Curry, Jun., and Company. […], page 95:

  In verbs ending in ie, ye, oe, and ee, the e is retained before ing; as hie, hieing; vie, vieing; dye, dyeing; eye, eyeing; shoe, shoeing; hoe, hoeing; see, seeing; agree, agreeing: also, in singe, singeing; swinge, swingeing.