noun. The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.

verb. Present participle of form.

"Then cast away _all_ the loathsome littleness which has rusted and fouled around you, and look at Nature as she literally _is_, in her naked beauty, conceiving and forming, quickening and warming into infinitely varied and lovely life, and then _forming_ once again with the strong and harsh influences of death, pain and decay."

conforming  informing  misinforming  nonperforming  norming  

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