[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That transforms.
a. 1653. Binning, Serm. (1845), 10. Love is an uniting and transforming thing.
1827. Keble, Chr. Y., 13th Sunday Trin., xviii. Our … Saviour’s face … Bent on us with transforming power.
1842. I. Williams, Baptistery, I. ix. (1874), 107. I gaz’d Upon the footsteps of transforming time.
1907. W. M. Ramsay, in Expositor, Jan., 72. The transforming hand of man was applied to it.
Hence Transformingly adv.
1865. H. Bushnell, Vicar. Sacr., ii. (1868), 68. He could not so powerfully and transformingly impress the fact.
1874. Geo. Eliot, Coll. Breakf. P., 771. That energy Which moves transformingly in root and branch.
