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Hypostasize
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Hy`pos´ta`size
v. t.1.To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize.
The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether.
- Coleridge.
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As her name itself suggests, MacGooden embodies Larsen's critique of a literary territory in which virtue is raised to the level of sexual ideology, interpellating the novel's late-nineteenth-century female readership through its inscription of female selfhood within the narrow parameters of a hypostasized goodness.
Nella Larsen and the Intertextual Geography of Quicksand by Brickhouse, Anna / African American Review
This dependence precludes any doctrine of the preexistence and incarnation of a hypostatized Logos, while other Trinitarian titles (Holy Spirit, Wisdom, Father, Son) are no longer names of hypostasized persons but rather metaphors for the one God's being or activity.
A METAPHOR GONE WILD by Cavadini, John / Commonweal
In fact, however, they are not universal at all, but hypostasized generalizations from very specific conditions in societies that modernization theory itself calls "developed.
A fatal logic by Malia, Martin / The National Interest
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