particularization

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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

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

On the other hand, the content also gains in varied particularization.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Various

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

This summary must suffice for preliminary orientation, while the detailed division, particularization, modification, and limitation of these general points must be left for later treatment.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard