Definition of "thronging"

thronging

verb
1. present participle and gerund of throng
noun
plural throngings
1. The act of those who throng or form a crowd.
  Quotations
  Tooth-drawers' bills, and tedious proclamations / In meal-markets, with throngings to see cutpurses […]
  c. 1614, John Fletcher, “Wit Without Money, a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, Act IV, scene v
adjective
comparative more thronging, superlative most thronging
1. Of something that throngs.
  Quotations
  Look at the arduous exertion required of middle life; the thronging anxieties that spring up for others more than for ourselves;...
  1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXX, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 312