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hominization|hɒmɪnaɪˈzeɪʃən|
[a. F. hominisation (P. Teilhard de Chardin Le Phénomène Humain (1948) iii. i. 199), f. L. homo, homin- man + -ization.]
The evolutionary development of characteristics, esp. mental or spiritual ones, that are held to distinguish man from other animals.
1953J. S. Huxley Evol. in Action vi. 136 The original stock of pre-human apes differentiated into many species, all showing a trend towards what has been called hominization—the acquisition of more human characters. 1959B. Wall tr. Teilhard de Chardin's Phenomenon of Man iii. i. 180 Hominisation can be accepted in the first place as the individual and instantaneous leap from instinct to thought, but it is also..the progressive phyletic spiritualisation in human civilisation of all the forces contained in the animal world. 1962W. Howells Ideas on Human Evol. 295 (heading) The hominization of the masticatory apparatus, and modifications of diet.
Also ˈhominized ppl. a.
1959B. Wall tr. Teilhard de Chardin's Phenomenon of Man iii. iii. 223 Are not the artificial, the moral and the juridical simply the hominised versions of the natural, the physical and the organic? 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 479/3 To supersede Rudolph Otto's notion of the holy as the numinous..and to do this for a hominized, secularized world. |