fashioning

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He watched her fingers move swiftly and surely in the fashioning of a small round of needlework. — The Promise: A Tale of the Great Northwest, James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx
It is difficult to judge what an Indian’s ears would be like if left to Nature’s fashioning, as they are invariably distorted to more or less degree by artificial means. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen
The selecting and disciplining influence--destructive, as well as creative and fashioning--which can be exercised by means of religion is manifold and varied, according to the sort of people placed under its spell and protection. — Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

devising, making

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