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materialisation

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See materialization, materialize.

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  • noun Alternative spelling of materialization.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit)
  • noun the process of coming into being; becoming reality
  • noun something that comes into existence as a result

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Examples

  • The people he had ever seen who were most in earnest were a committee of gentlemen who had investigated the phenomena of the "materialisation" of spirits, some ten years before, and had bent the fierce light of the scientific method upon him.

    The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) Henry James 1879

  • The materialisation was apparent in a recent story about Matthew Shepard, a hatred crimes plant as well as idol of a gays rights struggle.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • For all a speak of a Sixth Year Itch in American politics (the much-discussed materialisation of a presidents celebration removing thumped in a sixth year of his presidency), there is a smaller-but-still important Second Year Itch which additionally exists in a recent history of midterm choosing cycles.

    2010: An Early Snapshot of the Electoral Landscape admin 2009

  • Is she responsible for the materialisation of Charles's deceased first wife, Elvira?

    This week's new theatre and dance 2011

  • For all a speak of a Sixth Year Itch in American politics (the much-discussed materialisation of a presidents celebration removing thumped in a sixth year of his presidency), there is a smaller-but-still important Second Year Itch which additionally exists in a recent history of midterm choosing cycles.

    Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009

  • The materialisation was apparent in a recent story about Matthew Shepard, a hatred crimes plant as well as idol of a gays rights struggle.

    Should the Peace Prize Have Gone to Neda? -- Politics Daily admin 2009

  • It builds by means of a series of impressions, from some initial scene-setting ( "winter stark"/"level dark") to "the mystery/Of the blasted tree" and then, after the de rigueur owl (well, owlet), a horrid materialisation, finally and dramatically evoked as "the white sight".

    Poem of the week: Wind by Sydney Dobell 2010

  • I should really switch to "attempt to induce spontaneous materialisation of Zhang Ziyi" or "invite attack by the chocolate truffle beast" or something.

    Making Light: Open thread 136 2010

  • It is still a little bit harder to argue in Asian than in the West, but the current era, despite the rapid industrialization and ‘materialisation’ of East Asia, is undergoing a fundamental shift to immateriality.

    P2P Wiki - Importance of neotraditional approaches in the reconstructive transmodern era William Harryman 2009

  • Others, those not so well intellectually endowed, might, in the cold dark of night, whilst shivering, cowering in the corner , afraid of the monster, whimpering, waiting for the god like materialisation of the hero.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » Under the knife. 2009

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