transforming

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TRANSFORM'ING, participle present tense Changing the form or external appearance; metamorphosing; transmuting; renewing. 1. adjective Effecting or able to effect a change of form or state; as the transforming power of true religion.
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