tensification

The obvious reason for the in - tensification of a political authority theoretically grounded in the free consent of its constituent subjects was the voluntary factor originally built into it, but more important for the irreversibility of this authority was the stipulation of social unity as a final end for this authority which transcended any particular exer - cise or abuse of its coercive powers.

AUTHORITY LEONARD KRIEGER 1968

But this latter usage is also deeply grained in the language, and my suggested solutions might be thought not to provide sufficiently high tensification.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1 1975

“theater of cruelty,” “op art,” and similar minor movements, but by more serious artists, such as expres - sionist painters and ideological playwrights who have felt that the achievement of beauty is not the most important aim of art, and may interfere with the in - tensification of experience or the radicalizing of the perceiver.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968