Meanings
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of uptake
plural uptakings
- An understanding; comprehension.
When admitted to perfect vision, we shall find, that our clearest apprehensions and brightest uptakings of him below, differed but a degree from ignorance.
1840, James Meikle, Solitude Sweetened, page 197
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