hypostatize
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hypostatize (third-person singular simple present hypostatizes, present participle hypostatizing, simple past and past participle hypostatized)
- (transitive) To construct a contextually-subjective and complex abstraction, idea, or concept into a universal object without regard to nuance or change in character.
- Progressives are wrong to hypostatize their belief in mankind's eternal advance, and to disavow anything that does not fit this preordained vision. - Cardozo Law Review, February 2005
