[f. EXPLAIN + -ING1.] The action of the vb. EXPLAIN; † an explanation.

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1580.  Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 383. This Sonnet, which might serue as an explaining to the other.

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1656.  H. Phillips, Purch. Patt. (1676), 175. The Table is so plain it needs no explaining.

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1721.  R. Bradley, Wks. Nat., 110. No more than the unfolding and explaining of their Parts one after another.

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1740.  Watts, Remnants of Time, § 21. I am quite tired and weary of these human explainings, so various and uncertain.

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