[f. CREATE v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb CREATE.
1605. Shaks., Lear, I. ii. 14. More composition … Then doth … Goe to th’ creating a whole tribe of Fops.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time, Concl. (1724), II. 637 (R.). The bad Treatment of those, who are suffered still to live in a Society, is the creating so many Malecontents.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls., II. 93. The godlike attribute of creating.
