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particularisation

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See particularization, particularize.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of particularization.

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  • noun an individualized description of a particular instance

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Examples

  • The particularisation, therefore, which is as yet retained in the sphere of the Universal, when it actually manifests itself outwardly as such, constitutes the Other as against the extreme of Universality, and this other extreme is consciousness in its individuality as such.

    I am the fire and the water which touch each other Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • The particularisation, therefore, which is as yet retained in the sphere of the Universal, when it actually manifests itself outwardly as such, constitutes the Other as against the extreme of Universality, and this other extreme is consciousness in its individuality as such.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Such a particularisation of his statement would have at once reduced it to absurdity.

    An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

  • We suffer at present, I think, from the too great particularisation of our efforts.

    Civics: as Applied Sociology Patrick Geddes 1893

  • Dante, without question on his part, the first condition of the poetic way of seeing and presenting things is particularisation.

    Appreciations, with an Essay on Style Walter Pater 1866

  • I still haven't been provided with any proper particularisation of what it is that I am supposed to have done.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • I still haven't been provided with any proper particularisation of what it is that I am supposed to have done.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • Milton's use of the demonstrative ~those~ in this line is noteworthy; comp. "_that_ last infirmity of noble mind," _Lyc. _ 71: it implies that the reference is to something well known, and that further particularisation is needless.

    Milton's Comus John Milton 1641

  • Nebuchadnezzar of Scripture is the Cyrus of Greek History, "and second, that" David, the Jew, a favourite of this prince, wrote all those oracles scattered in Isaiah, Jeremiah and Ezekiel relative to his enterprises, for the particularisation of which they afford ample materials. "

    George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

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