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- verb Present participle of
platonize .
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Examples
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He charged that in later antiquity platonizing theologians, who had absorbed the teachings of philosophy before becoming Christians, grafted the senseless doctrine on the pure and simple faith.
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This apologue has been a favorite with platonizing poets, like Spenser and Milton.
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It assumes that when our ordinary consciousness goes out, the only alternative surviving kind of consciousness that could be possible is abstract mentality, living on spiritual truth, and communicating ideal wisdom -- in short, the whole classic platonizing
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I don't see how it can ever revive again in its ancient platonizing rôle of claiming to be the most authentic, intimate, and exhaustive definer of the nature of reality.
A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy
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To a platonizing divine they look trivial; picked up in the street.
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But the paflage, inflead of proving this readinefs of the platonizing Chriftians, proves the readinefs of the pa - gan philofophers to apply this fame name to a perfon; even to the Maker of the Univerfe.
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You in - form me that "the platonizing Chriftians were not
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