Schewynge

Part of speech: verb, noun

Definitions

1. An archaic spelling of the act of displaying, revealing, or making something plainly visible to others
2. Old form meaning the action of demonstrating or exposing something so that it can be seen or understood
3. Archaic term for the process of presenting or disclosing something to view, as in older English texts

Etymology: Schewynge is a Middle English spelling of the verb "shewing" (also "schewing"), which meant to show, display, or make visible. It is the present participle and verbal noun of "shewen", a form of "shewe", from Old English "sceawian", meaning to look at or observe. That Old English verb is related to "scēawere" (a looker, an observer), and it is the ancestor of modern "show". Over the Middle English period "shewe" and "shewen" were common spellings, and the "w" was simply how the vowel sound was written in the manuscripts. Its sense has narrowed over time. Medieval writers used "shewing" for a range of acts of demonstrating or revealing, and it survives today mainly in its noun form, as in "a showing" of a film or a house. In the modern standard spelling the word is "showing", and the "-ing" ending has remained unchanged since Old English.