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

These lines are of little interest apart from the fact of being the earliest known example of the Canting speech or Pedlar's French in English literature.

From Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] by Farmer, John Stephen

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

Dekker's dictionary of Canting, given in Lanthorne and Candle-light, is the same as that of Harman.

From The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare's Youth Awdeley's 'Fraternitye of vacabondes' and Harman's 'Caveat' by Awdeley, John