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1840 C. C. Felton tr. W. Menzel German Lit. II. 273 Writers have fancied they were expounding the beautiful, when they..subjectified and objectified, realized and idealized, and so forth, in the emptiest of all abstractions.

1857 Calcutta Rev. June 275 Could we so far ‘subjectify’ ourselves as to enter into the spirit of the old republics, what should we find to be their feelings and beliefs as to this orient of ours?

1868 Contemp. Rev. 8 617 The oriental mind..subjectifies the individuality, or, to frame a word for the occasion, inwards it.

1900 G. Santayana Poetry & Relig. 248 To subjectify the universe is not to improve it.

1917 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God xi. 211 These difficulties depend on the conception of the world as a finished fact independently existing, and an equally independent knower with a peculiar apparatus of faculties which inevitably colour and subjectify any fact on which they are brought to bear.

2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xxxiii. 536 Memory subjectified objects just as experience taught.

1858 New Monthly Mag. 114 215 The scenery I have described has no existence, except in and through my sensations, being..only the objectified image of the subjectified sensation of the retina of my eye.

1891 F. A. Shoup Mechanism & Personality xii. 113 The world known, is the objectified self; the self knowing, is the subjectified world.

1961 W. Stern in T. Shipley Classics in Psychol. 253 The scale of subjectified experiences runs from the infant's vague feeling of being alive to the adult's completely formed consciousness of self.

2005 D. Forbes in S. Behr & M. Malet Arts in Exile in Brit. 1933–45 78 During the Cold War..socialist realist practice became increasingly subjectified and mythologised within the frame of modernist aesthetics.

1854 A. Tulk tr. H. M. Chalybäus Speculat. Philos. x. 231 As the former is objectifying, the latter is subjectifying, or directed back to the subjectivity.

1882 H. D. Traill Sterne xi. 170 The Uncle Toby of the subjectifying sentimentalist, surveying his character through the false medium of his own hypertrophied sensibilities.

1904 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 15 297 The subjectifying sciences make no use of the concept of causality; it is their business to understand, by a process of interpretation and evaluation.

2008 R. Pettman Intending the World 12 This leaves us with those who, having first learned to put themselves at a mental distance, seek to eliminate that distance again, either by emoting more in a subjectifying way, or by thinking more in a subjectifying way.