particularising

Science-fiction novelists try to hit the Universal by particularising the Universe.

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

Science-fiction novelists try to hit the Universal by particularising the Universe.

Elsewheres 2006

Literary novelists try to hit the Universal by particularising the experiences and inner life of a character.

Archive 2006-10-01 2006

Literary novelists try to hit the Universal by particularising the experiences and inner life of a character.

Elsewheres 2006

But to repress with greater force the overflowing depravity, and to combat the evil with an opposite extreme, it was proper to divest the religious idea of its particularising and national forms, and to present it in its more comprehensive and general character, in its celestial beauty of a future reign of happiness, based on love, justice, liberty, and universal peace.

A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth Isaac Samuele Reggio

‘This particularising style, ’ comments Mr Payne, ‘is the essence of Poetry; and in Prose it is impossible not to be struck with the energy it produces.

V. Interlude: On Jargon 1916

It may be so, but one may perhaps "find the whole" without particularising everything.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

(II) The Ideal is the particularising of the Potential into a certain

The Hidden Power And Other Papers upon Mental Science 1881

They described minutely the disasters of the poison camp on the Batavia, particularising the fact of Frank Jardine having shot one of the poisoned horses, his favourite, with his revolver, their start on foot, and other things.

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880

"You've never been here before, I suppose," suggested Sewell, with the vague intention of generalising or particularising the conversation, as the case might be.

The Minister's Charge William Dean Howells 1878