nominalizev.

1659 Instr. Oratory 32 Verbs (where else circumlocution must be used) nominalized, do admit one termination familiarly, that suffer not another.

1915 Amer. Anthropologist 17 549 In a Chipewyan form like hi-l-tc!ε-t!a.., postpositive -t!a..nominalizes and subordinates hi-l-tc!ε.

1962 Jrnl. Philos. 59 260 To say this in idiomatic English one has to nominalize the component sentences.

1968 J. Lyons Introd. Theoret. Linguistics 265 The constituent-string is transformed (‘nominalized’) into an N[oun] P[hrase] of the form A[djective] + N[oun].

1988 H. Pilch in E. G. Stanley & T. F. Hoad Words: for R. Burchfield's 65th Birthday 138 When speaking metaphorically of rich cheese, of poor students, we would..nominalize these attributes as the richness of the cheese (rather than its wealth), the poorness of the students (rather than their poverty).

1927 J. M. Robertson Mod. Humanists 49 If we hypostatize our conception of ‘the Good’, and nominalize all the aspects of it as a collective ‘Good’, exactly the same process..must be applied to all the aspects we name Evil.

1960 Jrnl. Politics 22 701 He tended to suppress the realist outcome of the doctrine of ideas, and to nominalize Plato.

1998 M. Balaguer Platonism & Anti-Platonism in Math. 16 The first claim—..that physical theory can be nominalized—is the controversial part of the program.