present participle and gerund of strain
The act by which one strains. (muscles, etc
sundry violent gaspings and strainings
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.
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