tiding

Etymology

From Middle English tiding, tidinge (also tidinde, tidende, etc.), from Late Old English tīdung, from tīdan (“to befall; happen”), probably with assimilation to -ing. Either from or influenced by Old Norse tíðindi ( > Danish/Norwegian tidende). Cognate with Dutch tijding, German Zeitung.

noun

1. (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. c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.
   Glad tidings we bring / To you and your kin. 19th century, “We Wish You a Merry Christmas”
   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. January 12 2022, Dr. Joseph Brennan, “Castles: ruined and redeemed by rail”, in RAIL, number 948, page 57

verb

1. present participle and gerund of tide