outworking

English

Etymology 1

From out- + working.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈaʊtwəːkɪŋ/

Noun

outworking (plural outworkings)

  1. The process by which something is carried out or accomplished; the act or results of developing something.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 736:
      The outworkings of the Reformation thus pulled England back into an intimate territorial involvement in the affairs of mainland Europe, from which the French had previously expelled it when they captured the last medieval English mainland enclave of Calais in 1558.

Etymology 2

See outwork.

Verb

outworking

  1. present participle of outwork

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