单词 | generalizer |
释义 | generalizern. A person who generalizes. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [noun] > making general > one who generalizerc1792 c1792 E. Burke in C. R. Leslie & T. Taylor Sir J. Reynolds (1865) II. x. 638 (note) He was a great generaliser, and was fond of reducing everything to one system. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham I. xv. 103 Your countrymen are great generalizers in philosophy. 1864 De Morgan in Notes & Queries 5 455 A very moderate power of dramatic narrative..will set four-fifths of the abstracters and generalizers reading a second-rate novel. 1882 Sat. Rev. 28 Jan. 99 Mr. Gladstone is nothing if not a generalizer. 1902 Times 22 Nov. 12/3 I am almost glad that I shall not live to see that day—a day at which I suppose the specialist will have an enormous and almost unutterable contempt for the generalizer. 1936 E. Hocking Ferdinand Brunetiere ii. 84 As great a generalizer as Sainte-Beuve was a particularizer, he can successfully embrace vast sweeps of time, interweaving influences, and ideas recurrent. 1995 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Island of Day Before 318 Roberto had no desire to argue further with this generous generalizer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1792 |
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