Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of strain
plural strainings
- The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc)
sundry violent gaspings and strainings
1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 4, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC - filtering, the process of passing something through a strainer.
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
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Greek ήθηση
- ήθηση (íthisi)straining/filtering something
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