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Answer for the clue "The act of making something more beautiful ", 14 letters:
beautification

Word definitions for beautification in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
beautification \beau`ti*fi*ca"tion\ n. the act of making something more beautiful.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1630s, from beauty + -fication .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Beautification is the process of making visual improvements to a person, place, or thing. With regard to a town, city, or urban area, this most often involves planting trees, shrubbery, and other greenery, but frequently also includes adding decorative ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of making something more beautiful

Usage examples of beautification.

But in addition to the usual causesnew band uniforms and computers for the public library and funds for the Legion Auxiliary summer beautification project-every game, every booth, was pledging money to the effort to find Josh.

This fracas began when Lena mentioned the extremely highbrow and expensive beautification and body-reducing establishment which Pat conducted on Park Avenue.

Jezebel was mighty proud of her inheritance from her pappy and in a pathetic fit of beautification planted a few geranimus and pansies in the hard packed ground fronting the splintery porch of the dwelling.

He rode the slidewalks and escalators until, half a mile above the ground, he came to his regular Tuesday-evening eateasy, a swank and illegal little restaurant with a grubby exterior that proclaimed to all nonmembers that it was a branch of a silicone surgery beautification chain.

Finally, when she had run out of ablutions and could find no further acts of purification or beautification to perform, she reached for her nightgown and slipped it on.

Since I have been here the beautification of his garden has been his chief object, and he has made a very respectable waterfall, a rushing stream, a small lake, a rustic bamboo bridge, and several grass banks, and has transplanted several large trees.

Highland Avenue in Hollywood, a two-story stucco monument to bad taste that had somehow escaped every Hollywood beautification project to date.

She began a beautification program that spread wiidflowers along thousands of miles of U.

Water bill, a public service announcement about Park Beautification Week, and a letter from Morocco.

The demon knew at once who they were, because he had been a classical scholar before becoming doorman to an afterlife beautification service.

Straightening teeth, in Hoke's opinion, came under beautification, and was not a necessary medical expense.