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▪ I. ˈinˌworking, vbl. n.
[in-1, or in adv. 11 c. In 16th c. app. a rendering of Gr. ἐνέργεια energy (f. ἐν in + ἔργον work).]
†a. Operation, action, energy. Obs.
b. Internal operation, working within.
1587Golding De Mornay v. 50 Vnderstanding is an in⁓working which abideth..in the partie which hath it, and passeth not into any outward thing. Ibid. xv. 231 If the Minde haue any inworking of its owne without any helpe of the Sences. a1800MacKnight cited by Webster (1828). 1829P. N. Shuttleworth Paraphr. Apost. Ep. 134 Yet all this variety of faculties is nothing more than the inworkings of one and the same Spirit. 1873Goulburn Pers. Relig. iii. 22 The result of His inworking in the heart.
▪ II. ˈinˌworking, ppl. a.
[in adv. 11 a.]
†a. Active, effective (= Gr. ἐνεργής). Obs.
b. Working within; operating internally.
1587Golding De Mornay v. 49–50 The actiue or inworking vertue, power and nature, which we marke in all things in this world. Ibid. 60 In which worke both our inworking power and also our wit and our will doe concurre all together. 1828Webster, Inworking, working or operating within. 1860Ellicott Life Our Lord i. 35 By the grace of the inworking Spirit. 1893in Barrows Parl. Relig. II. 1084 The Vedic sages beheld in every force and phenomenon of nature an inworking light of the divinity. |