particularization

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The doctrine of emanation also regards the world as a process of particularization.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" by Various

It cannot be comprehended by any kind of particularization or distinction.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

For the Discourse concerning Ridicule and Irony is largely a particularization, a crude but powerful reworking of Shaftesbury’s Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour.

From A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) by Collins, Anthony

As the mind is no longer disturbed, the particularization of the surrounding world is annihilated.

From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath

The particularization of flowers by Shakspeare and Shelley affords us the most frequent examples of the exalted use of these inferior details.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by Ruskin, John