realizedadj.
/ˈrɪəlʌɪzd/, U.S. /ˈri(ə)ˌlaɪzd/ That has been realized (in various senses of realize v.2).
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a1719 J. Monro Coll. about 50 Relig. Lett. (1722) xxxiii. 120 The first Mean of the Change is, a deep (not overly or notional) realized view of our original and actual Guilt.
1740 R. Whatley Judgment Signed 11 Under his Lordship's realized protection.
1779 R. Cumberland Calypso ii. 19 Where am I? Sure it was a dream!—Ah, no. Voluptuous grotto! realiz'd disgrace!
1822 W. Wordsworth Memorials of Tour on Continent 63 He left his Trans-atlantic home: Europe, a realized romance, Had opened on his eager glance.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation i. iv. 118 A tax..on what is called realized property, that is, or on lands, houses, the public funds, mortgages, and such-like securities.
1883 Contemp. Rev. 43 268 The realized morals of a people find an expression in their usages and laws.
1901 Times 26 Jan. 10/2 This [opinion] will depend on whether we prefer a small and completely realized work, or whether we refuse our admiration to anything that has not an element of the grandiose.
1961 Mod. Law Rev. 24 594 Recklessness is indifference to the realised possible risks and consequences of one's actions.
1995 Accountancy Nov. 106/2 It would appear that the receipt of £300,000 is a realised profit.
Compounds
realized eschatology n. Theology The theory, popularized by C. H. Dodd (1884–1973) that the eschatological passages in the New Testament refer not to a future apocalypse, but to an era which was inaugurated by Christ's presence and ministry on earth. Cf. eschatology n. b.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse > believing present now
realized eschatology1935
1935 C. H. Dodd Parables of Kingdom ii. 51 Our interpretation of the teaching regarding the Kingdom of God..represents the ministry of Jesus as ‘realized eschatology’, that is to say, as the impact upon this world of the ‘powers of the world to come’ in a series of events, unprecedented and unrepeatable, now in actual process.
1936 C. H. Dodd Apostolic Preaching iii. 156 This promise of a second coming is realized in the presence of the Paraclete..in the life of the Church... The evangelist, therefore, is deliberately subordinating the ‘futurist’ element in the eschatology of the early Church to the ‘realized eschatology’ which..was from the first the distinctive and controlling factor in the kerygma.
1946 E. L. Mascall Christ, Christian & Church vi. 101 In recent years much stress has been laid upon the notion of ‘realized eschatology’,..the view that..the last Day and the Final Judgment are actually present to Christians now.
1990 Jrnl. Bibl. Lit. 109 343 This book provides a thorough critique of what the author calls the dogma of realized eschatology which currently obtains in NT scholarly circles.
Derivatives
ˈrealizedness n.
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1855 Friendly Visitor 5 234/1 The sinfulness of our heart stands in all its realisedness before us.
1876 F. H. Bradley Ethical Stud. 119 Taking pleasure to be the feeling of the realizedness of the will or self.
1958 Philos. Rev. 67 516 The first ‘actuality’ has one meaning..; the second has one or both of two further meanings..:to refer to the ‘objective’ of a potentiality, whether realized or not, and to refer to the realizedness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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