beautifying

English

Verb

beautifying

1. present participle of beautify

Noun

beautifying (uncountable)

1. The action of the verb to beautify.

   Synonym: beautification

Translations

the action of the verb to beautify

• Esperanto: beligo, beligado
• French: embellissement (fr)
• German: Verschönerung (de) f
• Volapük: jönam, jönükam

Adjective

beautifying (comparative more beautifying, superlative most beautifying)

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

     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^[2], 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 and Patrick M. McGrady, The Pritikin Program for Diet and Exercise, New York: Bantam, 1980, Part 2, Chapter 13, p. 74,^[3]

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

Translations

tending to make beautiful

• Esperanto: beliga
• French: embellissant (fr)