canting

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Canting, the second oldest of his five children, was the most ambitious.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the most dangerous thing Chen Canting had done in his life.

From Time Magazine Archive

Canting, preaching with a whining affected tone, perhaps a corruption of chaunting; some derive it from Andrew Cant, a famous Scotch preacher, who used that whining manner of expression. 

From The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

Does he think to put me down with his Canting, not being able to do it with his poetry?

From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Smiles, Samuel

At present, I shall confine myself to the second class, which are called, in Latin blazon, Arma Cantantia, in French, Armes Parlantes, and in English, Canting Arms.

From The Curiosities of Heraldry by Lower, Mark Antony