different between clarifying vs understandable

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clarifying

clarifying (plural clarifyings)

A clarification.
- 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists (page 64)
  Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.

From Middle English understondable, equivalent to understand +? -able.

understandable (comparative more understandable, superlative most understandable)

(capable of being understood): comprehensible, understandable; See also Thesaurus:comprehensible
(capable of being accepted): acceptable, excusable

(capable of being understood): incomprehensible, unfathomable; See also Thesaurus:incomprehensible
(capable of being accepted): inexcusable, unacceptable

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