practicalizing love

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  • verb Present participle of practicalize.

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  • There was anything but insensibility or tolerance on his part towards such shortcomings: but, while he saved me from the demoralizing effects of school life, he made no effort to provide me with any sufficient substitute for its practicalizing influences.

    Chapter I. Childhood and Early Education 1909

  • There was anything but insensibility or tolerance on his part towards such shortcomings: but, while he saved me from the demoralizing effects of school life, he made no effort to provide me with any sufficient substitute for its practicalizing influences.

    The autobiography of John Stuart Mill 1873

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