outworking

noun

1. The process by which something is carried out or accomplished; the act or results of developing something.

   “The outworkings of the Reformation thus pulled England back into an intimate territorial involvement in the affairs of mainland Europe, from which the French had previously expelled it when they captured the last medieval English mainland enclave of Calais in 1558.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of outwork