straining
Verb
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Verb
- present participle of strain#English|strain
straining (plural strainings)
- The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
- sundry violent gaspings and strainings
- filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
- 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.
- 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists (page 64)
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