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Webster 1828 Edition

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Forming; molding; casting; conceiving; giving form.

shaping ‎(plural shapings)

The action of the verb to shape.
- 1996, Mike Michael, Constructing Identities: The Social, the Nonhuman and Change
  In contrast to the (to be sure, productive) shapings and constrainings of human identities in the sociotechnical network, here we have an expansion of identity.
(psychology) A method of positive reinforcement of behaviour patterns in operant conditioning.

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