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subjectify

American

[suhb-jek-tuh-fahy] / səbˈdʒɛk təˌfaɪ /

verb (used with object)

subjectified, subjectifying

to make subjective.
to identify with (a subject) or interpret subjectively.

subjectify British

/ səbˈdʒɛktɪˌfaɪ /

verb

(tr) to make subjective or interpret subjectively

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Etymology

Origin of subjectify

First recorded in 1865–70; subject + -ify

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subjectified subjectifying

Moynihan had stumbled into a quandary familiar to sociologists: sometimes your subject doesn’t want to be subjectified.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 2, 2015

I’m looking forward to narrativizing, subjectifying, and bloviating with you this week.

From Slate ● Dec. 26, 2013

This, we feel, is not the real Uncle Toby of Sterne's objective mood; it is the Uncle Toby of the subjectifying sentimentalist, surveying his character through the false medium of his own hypertrophied sensibilities.

From Sterne by Traill, H. D. (Henry Duff)

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