beautifying

beautifying

1. present participle and gerund of beautify

beautifying (uncountable)

1. The action of the verb to beautify.

   Synonym: beautification

beautifying (comparative more beautifying, superlative most beautifying)

1. That beautifies; tending to make beautiful.
   • 1695, Henry Killigrew, transl., Epigrams of Martial‎, London: Henry Bonwicke, Book 5, Epigram 32, pp. 117-118:

     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.

   • 1846, Herman Melville, chapter 30, in Typee‎, London: John Murray, published 1847, page 243:

     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].

   • 1979, Nathan Pritikin, Patrick M. McGrady, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise‎, New York: Bantam, published 1980, Part 2, Chapter 13, p. 74:

     […] I have found exercise far more beautifying than any surgical face-lift.