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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.

forming

forming ‎(plural formings)

The act by which something is formed; formation.
- 1987, Jeffrey K. Zeig, The Evolution of Psychotherapy
  […] a creative person, whose specific formings of behavior are not easily predictable […]