1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Personifying, or Personalising, the feigning a Person; or attributing a Person to an inanimate Being.

1878 Mind 3 128 Their existence is due to mere linguistic accident, and not to any primæval personalising of nature.

1961 Daily Tel. 28 Feb. 24/6 (heading) No witch hunt. Against ‘Personalising’.

1988 G. Bolton Drama as Educ. 122 It can be argued that the art of the actor is..a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled.., a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying.

1999 Amer. Hist. Rev. 104 1495 The delight with which rampaging crowds destroyed the royals' personal possessions in the Tuileries Palace testified to their personalizing of this moral outrage.

a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1839) IV. 430 The individual will or personalizing principle of free agency..is the factor.

1878 Mind 3 129 Indeed, of all possible factors of the personalising habit, probably one of the most powerful is the instinct of expression reading.

1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy vi. 165 As the ‘personalising’ technique becomes yearly more machine-tooled, so a good instinct is pulled out of shape.

1977 Theology 80 191 Such a union would be marked by eudokia, or divine good-pleasure, and by synapheia or true and personalizing relationship.

1990 D. Mervin Ronald Reagan & Amer. Presidency (BNC) 48 Television is, of course, a relentlessly personalizing medium.