Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as objectify.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To objectify.

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  • verb transitive To objectify.

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Examples

  • One of the most powerful resources of sociological inquiry is precisely the capacity to objectivate and aggregate social behavior using large-scale data collection and analysis.

    Methodological Individualism Heath, Joseph 2009

  • Howwith language alone as mediumto build a solid, convincing artistic structure out of something as evanescent as subjective song and how, in the bargain, to delineate or objectivate the impressively fluid contents of capitalist modernity?

    Sociopolitical (i.e., _Romantic_) Difficulty in Modern Poetry and Aesthetics 2003

  • There are few persons, I believe, who on hearing an instrumental composition do not feel a desire to form a mental picture of its contents, so to speak, to objectivate it in their minds.

    Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

  • There are several techniques during physical examination to increase the detection of DVT, such as measuring the circumference of the affected and the contralateral limb at a fixed point (to objectivate edema), and palpating the venous tract, which is often tender.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • There are several techniques during physical examination to increase the detection of DVT, such as measuring the circumference of the affected and the contralateral limb at a fixed point (to objectivate venous tract, which is often tender.

    Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

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