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Formalized

adjective

Concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art). Synonyms: formalised, formalistic.

Given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures. Synonym: formalised.

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Etymology of 'Formalized'

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"Formalized" Quotes from Famous Books

... courageous consciousness of life, but the duty of "literary" epic has been to develop this function, answerably to the development of life itself, into symbolism of some conscious idea of life—something at once more formalized and more subtilized than the primary virtue of courage. The Greeks, however, were too much overshadowed by the greatness of Homer to do much towards this. The Argonautica, the half-hearted epic of Apollonius Rhodius, is the only attempt ...

— The Epic - An Essay • Lascelles Abercrombie

... thirteenth centuries), and over the whole breadth and depth of her dominion, from Iona to Cyrene,—and from Calpe to Jerusalem. At what time the doctrine of Purgatory was openly accepted by Catholic Doctors, I neither know nor care to know. It was first formalized by Dante, but never accepted for an instant by the sacred artist teachers of his time—or by those of any great school or ...

— Our Fathers Have Told Us - Part I. The Bible of Amiens • John Ruskin

Words linked to "Formalized" : artistic creation, religious belief, faith, formalised, art, artistic production, official, religion, formalism