单词 | particularizing |
释义 | particularizingn. The action of particularize v. (in various senses). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [noun] > quality of being specific or detailed > specific or detailed mention, enumeration, etc. particularizing1604 particularization1641 specification1642 itemization1894 1604 T. Wright Passions of Minde (1620) 290 It is admirable how the minching and particularizing of the object of delight increaseth and augmenteth delight. 1612 T. Heywood Apol. for Actors iii. sig. G3v The particularizing of priuate mens humors (yet aliue) Noble-men, & others. a1633 G. Herbert Priest to Temple (1652) xiv. 65 If the Parson were ashamed of particularizing in these things, hee were not fit to be a Parson. 1753 J. Warton in C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid vii, in J. Warton et al. tr. Virgil Wks. III. 342 (note) We may observe first, what an air of probability is spread over the whole poem by the particularizing of every nation and people concerned in this war. 1785 C. Reeve Progress of Romance I. viii. 132 An early selection of Novels, translated from the Italian, Spanish and French writers, of which we have made mention, none of them deserve farther particularizing. 1841 G. Borrow Zincali I. i. xii. 207 We may be well excused from particularizing. 1884 H. James Partial Portraits 407 The danger that he has in mind is rather, I imagine, that of particularising [sc. as opposed to generalising]. 1985 M. Green I Believe in Holy Spirit 58 To ignore God's strange way of particularising in order to universalise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). particularizingadj. That particularizes; that makes something distinctive or individual; that focuses on or draws attention to details. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > the quality of being specific > [adjective] > going into detail particularizing1598 particular1607 1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge i. 18 Particularities which the Philosophers call particularizing qualities [It. indiuiduanti], that is..substantiall accidents which cause the particularity and singularity of substances. 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 394 If then it were spoken..after a particularizing way. 1763 J. P. Bonvespre Guide to Gram. xxxvii. 145 Note 7. The Particularizing Prepositions are de, en. 1828 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham (ed. 2) III. xiii. 224 He would, for his own sake, avoid the new and particularizing scrutiny into that dreadful event, which his accusation of Glanville would necessarily occasion. 1841 E. A. Poe Descent into Maelstrom in E. S. Rabkin Sci. Fiction: Hist. Anthol. (1983) 135 He continued in that particularising manner which distinguished him. 1851 J. Kitto Daily Bible Illustr. (1867) VIII. 440 He dwelt with particularizing emphasis on his persecution of the believers in Jesus. 1989 R. Hemenway in D. Kalstone Becoming Poet p. xi It may well have been Kalstone's encounter with Elizabeth Bishop's ‘intense difference’ through the abundant, particularizing medium of her letters..that brought about his abrupt and salutary change in direction. 1993 C. E. Gunton One, Three & Many ii. 54 The will of God is essentially a particularizing will. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1604adj.1598 |
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