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Definition of Shapings
1. shaping [n] - See also: shaping
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shapings
Literary usage of Shapings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life in Mind & Conduct: Studies of Organic in Human Nature by Henry Maudsley (1902)
"... feeling—Transcendental feeling and reason—Imaginative shapings of transcendental
feeling— Imagination in the different mental functions—Anthropomorphic ..."
2. God in His World: An Interpretation by Henry Mills Alden (1890)
"And these shapings will have the reality of the Faith itself. ... It is not
necessary to attribute infallibility to the shapings of an imagination thus ..."
3. Henry Irving: A Record of Twenty Years at the Lyceum by Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1893)
"After many attempts and shapings and re-shapings, the piece was at last ready—Wills
having undertaken the bulk of the work, I myself contributing, ..."
4. A Glossary of North Country Words, with Their Etymology, & Affinity to Other by John Trotter Brockett, William Edward Brockett (1846)
"shapings, shreds, cuttings of cloth. " Tailors' shapings." SHARD, a broken piece
of any brittle or fragile substance. The past participle of the Sax. ..."
5. Quiet Resting Places and Other Sermons by Alexander Raleigh (1875)
"These mere shapings and scantlings of ... of following after the great master:
nothing, as some would say, to make a finished life—mere shapings and young ..."
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