1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Realisation, a realization, a realizing, a making real.

1688 D. Williams Kingdom of God in Power 13 Faith is not a faint assent to the Truths of the Gospel, but such a realizing of invisible Objects, reliance on Christ, and consent to Him the Redeemer, as purifieth the Heart.

1727 A. Boyer Dictionaire Royal (rev. ed.) at Realiser Misers call realizing, the hoarding up of Gold or Silver.

1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 115 Even in loving Himself, he must love his own Productions, the Realizing of his own Ideas, and the Works of his own Power.

1785 E. Burke Speech Nabob Arcot's Debts in Wks. (1826) IV. 277 Suppose 1,200,000l. to be annually realised (of which we actually know no more than the realising of six hundred thousand).

1802 H. Martin Helen of Glenross I. 153 The realizing of one or two of your dismal reveries.

1854 Sir W. Hamilton in Stewart's Wks. Advt. 9 (note) The realizing, not only to imagination but to sight, of breadthless lines.

1895 Boston Herald 21 Mar. 5/7 Realizing sales caused irregularity and nervousness.

1910 Times 15 Sept. 11/5 It will remain an interesting personal question what part the ex-President will take in politics, and towards the realizing of his programme, when these particular elections are over.

1951 O. Tead Art of Admin. ii. 10 There is another complicating factor about the realizing of aims.

1992 Mod. Lang. Rev. 87 537 If anything could possibly be needed to emphasize the intensely visual and dynamic quality of the Poema, the realizing of the projected scenes..would provide a brilliant counterpoint to the text.

1656 A. Burgess CXLV Expository Serm. cxxi. 602 In these dayes to have such a substantiating, reallizing and confident assurance, is a great wonder.

a1677 T. Manton Sermons (1684) II. xi. 91 The Light of Faith is a realizing Light.

1692 D. Williams Gospel-truth Stated & Vindicated ix. 75 It [sc. faith] includes the realizing Assent to the Truth.

?1723 S. Wright Disc. against Profane Swearing 24 One realizing thought of such a day approaching, would for ever banish this plea of the swearer, that Oaths upon some occasions look genteel and bold.

1744 D. Brainerd Diary 9 Feb. in J. Edwards Acct. Life D. Brainerd (1765) 100 Enjoyed some realizing sense of divine power and goodness in prayer.

1768 N. Whitaker Two Serm. ii. 39 A realizing view and perception of the moral..glory of God.

1785 E. Perronet Occas. Verses 20 All this, and more, methinks I see, By faith's strong realizing eye.

1806 J. Vaill in Memoir (1839) 95 I have..a fixed and realizing sense of the truths contained in the word of God.

1838 H. Blunt Seven Churches Asia 75 A more realizing communion with God.

1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 324 I ought to go, so that it can be brought home to me, and I can have a realising sense of what I am doing.

1934 Times 15 Feb. 8/6 ‘Neo-Impressionism’, in which the general aims of impressionism are formulated into a theory; regular touches of pure colours being laid side by side, with a decorative as well as a realizing function.

1949 Amer. Anthropologist 51 386 Workers in war plants maintained a high efficiency through long hours of routine tasks because they had a realizing sense of ‘contributing to the war effort’.

1967 Harvard Theol. Rev. 60 186 The vast bulk of mankind..have lived and perished without a realizing sense of original sin.

1996 Perspectives New Music 34 92 A realizing musician spends much time in the studio and condenses it down into the small duration of a composition.

1786 S. Johnson Everlasting Punishment Ungodly p. xiv If your principles hang loosely in the wavering mind, as the cloaths upon the body, they cannot be so realizingly believed as to effect the grand practical intention.

a1849 J. H. Evans in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1882) VI. Ps. cxix. 151 Then may I realizingly remember, that [etc.].

1891 G. Meredith One of our Conquerors I. xii. 231 Her subservience..compelled her to think realizingly of any scheme he allowed her darkly to read.

2003 A. D. Smith Husserl & Cartesian Meditiations iv. 163 A horizon is a set of potentialities essentially prefigured by (experience of) a given type of object, and any such potentiality can be realizingly explored.