particularizern.
/pəˈtɪkjᵿlərʌɪzə/, U.S. /pə(r)ˈtɪkjələˌraɪzər/, /pɑrˈtɪkjələˌraɪzər/ A person who, or thing which, particularizes; a person interested in, or observant of, particulars as opposed to generalities.
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1848 Southern Literary Messenger 14 163/2 Human cunning, the perpetual creation of new objects of value, and the frequent shifting of human affairs into new channels, will always baulk the most tedious particularizer that ever wrote a statute.
1936 E. Hocking Ferdinand Brunetiere ii. 84 As great a generalizer as Sainte-Beuve was a particularizer, he can successfully embrace vast sweeps of time, interweaving influences, and ideas recurrent.
1966 W. S. Ramson Austral. Eng. v. 82 In some cases the resemblance to an English species was sufficient for the choice of name, but a qualification was introduced through the use of a particularizer, as, for instance, in..native pear.
1998 Canberra Times (Nexis) 24 Oct. a23 Politics is the great generaliser and literature the great particulariser, according to one of the many short sermons in Philip Roth's brilliant new novel.
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