refining
Verb
  1. Present participle and gerund of refine
Noun

refining (plural refinings)

  1. Refinement (process of refining)
    • 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists, page 64:
      Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.



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