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▪ I. informing, vbl. n.|ɪnˈfɔːmɪŋ|
[f. inform v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb inform, in various senses; instruction, information, etc.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 209 Summe doon folily, for defaute of enformynge. 1382― Wisd. xix. 15 Who..resceyueden them, that hadden vsid the same enformyngus. 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vi. xlv, Which back to him with mutuall dutie bears All their informings. 1769Blackstone Comm. IV. xiii. 172 Sharpers; who..if unsuccessful, have it in their power to be still greater gainers by informing.
▪ II. inˈforming, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That informs.
1. That imparts ‘form’, or some determining quality, esp. life or spirit; vitalizing, inspiring, animating: see inform v. 3.
1635Hakewill Apol. v.–vi. 195 Never any Aristotelian..will acknowledge that the heavens have any informing forme, but that it is a quintessence, a pure body without mixture, or composition of matter and forme. 1659Pearson Creed (1839) 229 The ancient heretics, who taught that Christ assumed human flesh, but that the Word or his Divinity was unto that body in the place of an informing soul. 1703Rowe Fair Penit. iv. i. 1532 Love was th' informing, active Fire within. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 5 Pantheists..convinced of the omnipresence of the informing mind. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 166 The informing energy of the human will.
2. Giving or conveying information; instructive; imparting the knowledge of facts. (In quot. 1647 in bad sense; cf. inform v. 7 b.)
1647Clarendon Contempl. Ps. Tracts (1727) 506 The busy, mischievous, informing slanderer. a1718Penn Tracts Wks. 1726 I. 718 A seasonable and informing Lecture for our own Times. 1887Spectator 5 Mar. 319/1 Hallam is great not as a literary writer, but as an informing writer.
Hence inˈformingly adv., in an informing manner, instructively.
1897Chicago Advance 21 Oct. 539/1 [He] spoke both inspiringly and informingly of the rise and growth of municipal functions. |