Pragmatize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact; to materialize. intransitive

    "One of the miraculous passages in the life of Mohammed himself is traced plausibly by Sprenger to such a pragmatized metaphor."

  2. 2
    To behave in a pragmatic manner; to focus on the material or practical rather than abstractions. intransitive

    "They are generically different ; they preach where they ought to worship, they pragmatize where they ought to pray, they discourse where they ought to send up the “Glory.”"

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"One of the miraculous passages in the life of Mohammed himself is traced plausibly by Sprenger to such a pragmatized metaphor."

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