Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make objective or impersonal; objectify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render objective; place before the mind as an object; objectify.
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- verb To
objectify
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Examples
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Gandha Baba, tuning himself with the cosmic force by certain yogic practices, was able to guide the lifetrons to rearrange their vibratory structure and objectivize the desired result.
Autobiography of a Yogi Yogananda, Paramhansa, 1893-1952 1935
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We both felt that this friendship was not only a blessing because each understood the other, was enriched by him, and found ins him that responsive echo so essential to anybody who is truly alive; it also helped to make both of us more independent of external experience, to objectivize it more easily.
The world as i see it Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955 1934
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Gandha Baba, tuning himself with the cosmic force by certain yogic practices, was able to guide the lifetrons to rearrange their vibratory structure and objectivize the desired result.
Autobiography of a Yogi Paramahansa Yogananda 1922
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Just as the individual while he remained in the toils of religion could only objectivize his being by turning it into a fantastic and alien being, so under the domination of egoistic needs he can only manifest himself in a practical way and only create practical objects by placing both his products and his activity under the domination of an alien being, and investing them with the significance of an alien being -- of money.
Selected Essays Karl Marx 1850
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