释义 |
▪ I. counterworking, vbl. n. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of the verb counterwork.
1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. ii. (1682) 21 The Counter⁓workings of Corrivals. a1680Charnock Attrib. God (1834) II. 100 The counter-workings of indwelling corruption..have ability to extinguish Grace. 1836–7Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xli. (1859) II. 424 In the external world, all is action and reaction—all is working and counterworking. ▪ II. counterworking, ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ing2.] That counterworks.
1660Milton Free Commw. 441 Two troublesom counter⁓working Adversaries. 1849Grote Greece ii. lxxii. (1862) VI. 382 By the counterworking rivalry of Pausanias. 1879Escott England I. 190 Varying and counterworking factors. |