[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CONSTITUTE.
1642. Milton, Apol. Smect. (1851), 316. Nothing of their own worth the constituting.
a. 1713. Abp. Sharp, Wks., V. iii. (R.). More necessary to the constituting of a man.
1853. Trench, Proverbs, 7. Three things go to the constituting of a proverb, shortness, sense, and salt.
