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re⋅i⋅fy
[ree-uh-fahy, rey-] 
əˌfaɪ
–verb (used with object), -fied, -fy⋅ing.
| to convert into or regard as a concrete thing: to reify a concept. |
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| re·i·fy (rē'ə-fī', rā'-) tr.v. re·i·fied, re·i·fy·ing, re·i·fies To regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence. [Latin rēs, rē-, thing; see rē- in Indo-European roots + -fy.] re'i·fi·ca'tion (-fĭ-kā'shən) n., re'i·fi'er n. |
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reification
1846, "act of materializing," from L. re-, stem of res "thing." In Marxist jargon, translating Ger. Verdinglichung.
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reification
the treatment of something abstract as a material or concrete thing, as in the following lines from Matthew Arnold's poem "Dover Beach": The Sea of FaithWas once, too, at the full, and round earth's shoreLay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
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