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  • verb Present participle of universalize.

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Examples

  • Universalizing Faith: Some few persons we find move into Stage Six, which we call universalizing faith.

    Fully Human, Fully Divine: James Fowler and Evelyn Underhill William Harryman 2009

  • This story is inevitably thematic and universalizing, which is why theory is the resistance to theory, even as it tells the story of the possibility that themes depend upon non-theme-driven linguistic motions.

    Professing Literature: John Guillory's Misreading of Paul de Man 2005

  • It should also be noted that some modern religions like [[Wicca]] and [[Neopaganism]] root their beliefs in ethnic religions, but are more properly classified as universalizing religions because they don't have a specific group of people that they appeal to, rather appealing to a diverse group of people throughout the world.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • It should also be noted that some modern religions like [[Wicca]] and [[Neopaganism]] root their beliefs in ethnic religions, but are more properly classified as universalizing religions because they don't have a specific group of people that they appeal to, rather appealing to a diverse group of people throughout the world.

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • The younger Bush believed that there is but a “single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise” — the kind of universalizing ideological claim that idealists have traditionally embraced.

    What Would Wilson Do? 2010

  • The younger Bush believed that there is but a “single sustainable model for national success: freedom, democracy, and free enterprise” — the kind of universalizing ideological claim that idealists have traditionally embraced.

    What Would Wilson Do? 2010

  • Publisher's Weekly, got very angry with me about this — and they both picked this up and a couple of reviewers I've seen since — where I say that in many ways the author of the Gospel of Mark reminds me of Edgar Allan Poe, in that he writes very very badly on a sentence by sentence basis, and yet he's got a spooky kind of universalizing imagination.

    An Interview with Harold Bloom 2006

  • Similarly, a painting with a variation on the scintillating grid - a phenomenon in which dots appear and disappear when you stare at a grid with dots placed at the intersections of the lines - suggests a kind of universalizing optical experience, in the same way Gestalt exercises did.

    NYT > Home Page By MARTHA SCHWENDENER 2010

  • It changed the entire thrust of the mission and its message, universalizing it far beyond its purely regional hub and purely Jewish milieu.

    Amazing Thread v.2.0 2009

  • The founders' genius lay in just these non-denominational and universalizing tendencies, which proved a crucial catalyst to the formation of American religious liberty.

    Anil Mundra: 'God Of Liberty': The Role Of Religion In American Independence Anil Mundra 2011

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