1801 German Museum 3 71 He characterizes the conduct of the collective members of various ranks in social life, for the instruction of poets and dramatic actors, who very rarely are capable of individualizing.

1807 La Belle Assemblée Apr. 163/2 Before she can perceive to which I allude, another fair fashionable presents herself; and the power of individualizing is lost in the elegant confusion.

1881 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Apr. 251 The question how much pocket-money ought you to allow a spendthrift, or an economical son, is one which you alone can decide, which brings an individualising of duty.

1918 Contemp. Rev. July 682 The more perfect individualising of nations, each people set free to be itself.

1978 D. Thompson Uses of Poetry (1980) vii. 176 Until the poet was withdrawn from his hearers by the barriers of literacy, poetry could be regarded as the product of a community, and there was less individualising of personal experience.

2008 M. Gibson Objects of Dead vii. 156 The burial practice of individualising is still preferred to the planned collective burial of the memorial.

1814 D. Anderson Canada 266 These parts are unlike each other, and each one has the individualizing prejudices of a separate state; all the puerile jealousies of the greatness of others.

1830 S. T. Coleridge in M. E. Sandford T. Poole & his Friends (1888) II. 321 This is not..the most individualising trait of our friend's character.

1865 G. Grote Plato I. i. 38 The individualising influences arising from the body..overpowered this kindred with the universal.

1913 Classical Weekly 6 147/1 Any particular stage of civilization represents the accumulation of successive stages of antecedent civilizations, and yet each stage has some individualizing characteristic.

1983 D. Polkinghorne Methodol. Human Sci. i. 23 The historical science approach..is individualizing; it concentrates on the uniqueness of the event.

2004 D. P. Lyle Forensics for Dummies i. iii. 38 The most individualizing types of evidence are fingerprints and DNA.

1871 F. Bolton tr. F. Delitzsch Biblical Comm. Psalms II. lxxix. 380 אָסִיר individualizingly [Ger. individualisirend] is those who are carried away captive and incarcerated.

1997 R. A. Prier in B. D. Schildgen Rhetoric Canon 68 Tryzete, another interesting word that appears only once in Homer and, perhaps, in a slightly more individualizingly textual sense than is normally expected.