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1906 Academy 20 Oct. 392/2 To ‘interiorise’ the struggle, to place it on the stage of the soul, with eternity for background.

1916 C. V. Stanford & C. Forsyth Hist. Mus. xvi. 329 The second [feature in American life] is the interiorizing and democratic habit-of-mind which partly connotes the term Americanism.

1934 Mind 43 89 In so far as habits of co-operation have convinced the child at a later age of the necessity of not lying, rules will become comprehensible and interiorised.

1937 G. W. Allport Personality (1938) p. viii From this point of view culture is relevant only when it has become interiorized within the person as a set of personal ideals, attitudes, and traits.

1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 84 206 The child interiorizes what he already understands.

1941 Theology XLII. 156 To discover anew the meaning of authority in their immanent freedom, by making it itself immanent within them by a process of interiorization.

1956 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 9 74 Hence he is unable to rise to the thought of suffering as the gift of divine love, as a sacramental medium through the purifying effect of which man attains a deeper realisation and interiorisation of God.

1961 J. N. Findlay Values & Intentions i. 40 Our talk about thoughts, decisions, etc., is always largely an ‘interiorization’ of our talk about words.

1966 A. Baraka in A. Chapman New Black Voices (1972) 465 The Black man must seek a Black politics, an ordering of the world that is beneficial to his culture, to his interiorization and judgment of the world.

1971 Jrnl. Gen. Psychol. 84 206 Since these interiorizations are not sufficient for the child, he gradually proceeds to representations based upon more logical..principles of operation.