Definition of Shapings

1. Noun. (plural of shaping) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shapings

1. shaping [n] - See also: shaping

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shapings

shapes
shapes up
shapeshift
shapeshifted
shapeshifter
shapeshifters
shapeshifting
shapeshifts
shapeup
shapeups
shapewear
shaping
shaping machine
shaping tool
shaping up
shapings (current term)
shapka
shapkas
shapono
shaponos
shapoo
shappe
shaps
shapt
shar-pei
sharab
sharability
sharable
sharaga
sharagas

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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