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beautifying

verb

Definitions

  1. present participle and gerund of beautify

  2. The act of beautifying.

  3. That beautifies

    That beautifies; tending to make beautiful.

    • When thou present’st me, Gellia, with an Hare, Marcus, thou say’st, ’twill make the seven Days fair. If Hare be such a beautifying Meat, Thou ne’er of one in all thy Life didst eat.
    • It evidently surpassed his majesty’s comprehension how any sober-minded and sensible individual could entertain the least possible objection to so beautifying an operation [i.e. being tattooed].
    • […] I have found exercise far more beautifying than any surgical face-lift.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA