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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
patterning
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Look at the beautiful delicate patterning around the base of the vase.
▪ The giraffes' distinctive patterning makes them difficult to see.
▪ The zebra has very distinctive patterning.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But some underlying patterning remains, despite the intervening years and the subtle shifts in values and beliefs.
▪ How do they arrange the patterning of their domestic environment, their settlements, their houses, their productive and reproductive activities?
▪ In fact, its sense organs and body are only an outward expression of this inward patterning, which we call instinct.
▪ It was a maze, the regular patterning of the levels above broken up long ago.
▪ The identification of apparent patterning amongst types and sub-groups of ornamental metalwork can easily induce a false sense of satisfaction.
▪ Their subtle energetic matrix, their inward patterning, their instinct, is that of water.
▪ With other creatures, their communications are largely a matter of instinctive patterning.
▪ Within each feather there is a further patterning which determines the distribution of the pigment.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patterning

Pattern \Pat"tern\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patterned; p. pr. & vb. n. Patterning.]

  1. To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.
    --Milton.

    [A temple] patterned from that which Adam reared in Paradise.
    --Sir T. Herbert.

  2. To serve as an example for; also, to parallel.

    To pattern after, to imitate; to follow.

Wiktionary
patterning

n. a pattern vb. (present participle of pattern English)

Usage examples of "patterning".

Here, I am interested - as indeed is the creature itself - with the life and subtle patterning within, which we observe outwardly as the form.

This microcosm is the mind patterning around a soul which permits it greater or lesser awareness of the greater empyrean.

Their subtle energetic matrix, their inward patterning, their instinct, is that of water.

The inward Life Force, surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas, creates a form or body of the same essential patterning, which is most wonderfully intricate, dynamic and complex, far more than we observe in a stone, in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air.

In fact, its sense organs and body are only an outward expression of this inward patterning, which we call instinct.

Certainly their close association with the coloured patterning and individual shapes of flowers bears witness to this.

DNA is only a part of the total patterning process of a creature, not its only formative mould.

Clairvoyance, or knowledge of the future, comes when the patterning of destiny, already etched into the hidden energy matrix of the human mind comes into the realm of our conscious attention, or conscious mind.

We all have a powerful formative part to play in the interwoven tapestry of energy change and patterning that makes up our lives - both individually and in a planetary sense.

They could have arisen apparently independently, but connected by the creative patterning of the Formative Mind which interpenetrates all living forms.

But then, say some of the scientists, this patterning came into being and responds to changing environmental circumstances through random mutations.

If we ignore the nature of the primal energy and the patterning power of the Formative Mind, we can never know how either we ourselves or material substance actually come into existence.

But, as we have seen - and please forgive the repetition - this patterning arises in the energy hierarchy of the Formative Mind.

Clearly we have to learn a great deal more concerning the structure and patterning of the vacuum and more subtle energy fields, to be able to do the same thing by non-psychic means.

Formative Mind itself, the hidden patterning spun over and around the inward life principle.