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uptaking

uptaking

English

Verb

uptaking

present participle of uptake

Noun

uptaking ‎(plural uptakings)

An understanding; comprehension.
- 1840, James Meikle, Solitude Sweetened (page 197)
  When admitted to perfect vision, we shall find, that our clearest apprehensions and brightest uptakings of him below, differed but a degree from ignorance.