formative
adjective
giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding.
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To be formatively perfect is not enough; they must also be spiritually perfect, and this not locally but universally.
From The Germ Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art by Dante Gabriel Rossetti