1854 L. P. Hickok Rational Psychol. 299 The mind has its own sensations within it.., and thus to it, all existence of an external, material world are simply the objectifying and materializing its own sensations.

1856 J. H. Seelye tr. A. Schwegler Hist. Philos. in Epitome 66 Hence we see that the Platonic doctrine of ideas is only the objectifying of this method which in Socrates appears no farther than a subjective dexterity.

1882 Mind 7 381 The objectifying and further complemental amplification of these specific sensorial signals.

1988 G. Bolton Drama as Educ. 122 The art of the actor is..a struggle between what is privately felt and symbolically controlled..a perpetual state of disequilibrium between personalising and objectifying.

1992 J. Stoltenberg in C. Itzin Pornography (1993) viii. 151 How does a man's history of sexual objectifying begin?

1859 Biblical Repertory Apr. 198 In his view perception had no objectifying virtue, and required an intermediate entity or idea.

1883 A. Barratt Physical Metempiric 73 Considered as impressed..it is a phenomenon, and..becomes through the inner objectifying process worked up into an external object or event.

1892 19th Cent. Dec. 964 The objectifying faculty became..weakened.

1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas ii. ii. 122 The intentional object..first becomes an apprehended object through a distinctively ‘objectifying’ turn of thought.

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 102 Perhaps their cultural differences provide a helpful and objectifying distance or perspective on what they see and hear.

1992 C. Itzin Pornography 19 Diana Russell, John Stoltenberg and Gloria Steinem..all describe sex and sexual explicitness which is not subordinating, objectifying or violent.