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Definition of Literalizes
1. literalize [v] - See also: literalize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literalizes
Literary usage of Literalizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Systematic Theology: A Compendium and Commonplace-book Designed for the Use by Augustus Hopkins Strong (1909)
"This, too, literalizes Scripture metaphor, and ignores the fact that the change
accomplished in regeneration is an exclusively moral one. ..."
2. The Methodist Review (1891)
"The Old School theology literalizes the figurative description given by the
prophet (Ezek. xxxvi, 26): " A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1890)
"... very act of stamping upon and bruising it, realizes and literalizes the account
of the promise made to our first parents in a most extraordinary manner. ..."
4. Studies in Hegel's Philosophy of Religion: With a Chapter on CHristian Unity by James Macbride Sterrett (1890)
"He may caricature the common Christian conception of God as that of a " non-natural
magnified man, living just around the corner." He literalizes where they ..."
5. Principles of Art: Pt. 1. Art in History; Pt. 2. Art in Theory by John Charles Van Dyke (1887)
"... works from the imagination, producing an art devoid of character; or he
literalizes the facts before him, and is wanting in good thought and feeling. ..."
6. Outlines of Analogical Philosophy: Being a Primary View of the Principles by George Field (1839)
"... is more ancient than Prose, which literalizes it; the first in each case
aggregates, concretes, and particularizes; the latter distribute, abstract, ..."
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