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essentialize

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es·sen·tial·ize  (-snsh-lz)
tr.v. es·sen·tial·ized, es·sen·tial·iz·ing, es·sen·tial·izes
To express or extract the essential form of.


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She takes issue with those who, like Freud or Foucault, essentialize the human body and its desires as some sort of transhistorical entity, yet use the male body as the standard (p.
It is much more difficult to objectify, essentialize, or dismiss the worldviews of others when one is moved by personal narratives that make vivid the ways in which religious worldviews shape and are shaped by the lives of individuals and their communities.
For example: "It is as though Caro's sculptures essentialize meaningfulness as such--as though the possibility of meaning what we say and do alone makes his sculpture possible.
 
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