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Winnowing

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of separating chaff from grain.

    "If God doth suffer his own people and dearest children to be exposed to Satan's temptings and winnowings; Why should any man then doubt of his childship, doubt of his own everlasting condition, and say, that he is none of the child of God because he is tempted?"

  2. 2
    the act of separating grain from chaff wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of winnow form-of, gerund, participle, present

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