v. [f. CO- 1 + WORK v.] intr. To work together; to co-operate.

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1613.  Purchas, Pilgrimage, VIII. ii. (1614), 728. The … prouidence of God co-working in those workes of Nature and Industrie.

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1645.  Pagitt, Heresiogr. (ed. 4), 111. All things co-work for good.

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1860.  Pusey, Min. Proph., 524. Man co-working with God.

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  Hence Co-working vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

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a. 1665.  J. Goodwin, Filled w. the Spirit (1867), 5. The manner of his [God’s] co-working in men.

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a. 1684.  Leighton, Comm. 1 Pet. i. 2 (1817). Working and coworking grace.

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