[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb COUNTERWORK.
1660. Ingelo, Bentiv. & Ur., II. (1682), 21. The Counterworkings of Corrivals.
a. 1680. Charnock, Attrib. God (1682), 471. The Counterworkings of Indwelling Corruption … have ability quickly to stifle and extinguish Grace.
1836–7. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaph., xli. (1859), II. 424. In the external world, all is action and reaction,—all is working and counterworking.
