"enhancing" definition, meaning, and origin

Adjective

Acting or tending to enhance.
- A few sounds were consistently more enhancing, while most were consistently more detracting. - 1982, L.M. Anderson, B.D. Mulligan, L.S. Goodman, “Esthetics of Sound in Outdoor Settings”, in Southeastern Recreation...
- Similarly, successful attack operations in cyberspace with few tracks back to the host government can be very enhancing to one's internal reputation. - 2011, Chris C. Demchak, Wars of Disruption and Resilience, page 207:
- It's obvious that this is more enhancing. - 2017, Trevor Wright, How to be a Brilliant Trainee Teacher:

The act of enhancing; enhancement.
- Evidence is sought for rebutting, not for confirming; and so, of course, little gets established; and even where facts are incontestable, the principles on which they were performed—the views of the agents—the objects...
- Because how can it be defnitively proven that an enhancing in our degree of emulating was in fact caused by the conditioning from employing some type of sensory enhancing mindset. - 2009, Martin L. Vanderhook, A Sensory...
- In addition to targeting risks and vulnerabilities associated with crises and upheavals, the enhancing of social protection must be mindful of the structural elements that place social groups in a situation of...