Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being wrung.
There are two things awry; on the one hand, the acting for self (a distinct tension and wrungness); and, on the other, the relations of life are distorted, and made to be against the natural demands; […]
1878, James Hinton, Ellice Hopkins, Life and Letters of James Hinton, page 2731 more example
Our social and psychological sciences stand helpless before the terrible things done by human beings, but the warpedness and wrungness of the human will is something we cannot admit into “serious” conversation.
2021, Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, page 42
Origin
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