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ˈoutˌworking, vbl. n.
[out- 9.]
1. The action or process of working out; practical operation.
1863J. G. Murphy Comm. Gen. v. 1, 2 The generations, evolutions, or outworkings of the skies and the land. 1880T. C. Murray Origin Ps. ix. 286 The outworking of this applied force in the physical phenomena of life. 1881W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. 2 The long ongoing and outworkings of the Mosaic Economy. 1958Church Times 5 Dec. 1/3 If the outworking of apartheid policies meant such cruelty and callousness, then even the Slightest Smell of a Compulsory apartheid must be removed from our Churches. 1961B. R. Wilson Sects & Society iii. xiv. 288 Christadelphians do take a keen interest in political events, as out-workings of biblical prophecy. 1976M. Wiles What is Theology? iv. 108 Philosophical assumptions implicit in these [Freudian] ideas and their practical outworking in therapy.
2. [See outwork n. and a.] The work of an out-worker.
1970G. Greer Female Eunuch 131 As an alternative to nursing or outworking, waitressing..is not conspicuously preferable. 1974Daily Tel. 12 Jan. 2/6 There are..areas of the country where ‘out-working’ has been traditional, as with lace at Nottingham. |