[f. prec. + -ING1.] The action or process of making beautiful; adornment, embellishment; pl. things that beautify.
1532. Thynne, in Animadv. (1875), Introd. 24. The beautifyeing … of thenglysh tonge.
1665. P. della Valle’s Trav. E. India, 78. The buildings … are rather plain, and almost all without beautifyings.
1798. Southey, Eng. Eclog., i. Wks. III. 3. I can remember … The beautifying of this mansion here.
