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Generalizer  n.  One who takes general or comprehensive views.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Generalizer" Quotes from Famous Books



... Rousseau, Alfieri, Coleridge,—is some reader of Plato, translating into the vernacular, wittily, his good things. Even the men of grander proportion suffer some deduction from the misfortune (shall I say?) of coming after this exhausting generalizer. St. Augustine, Copernicus, Newton, Behmen, Swedenborg, Goethe, are likewise his debtors, and must say after him. For it is fair to credit the broadest generalizer with all the particulars deducible ...
— Representative Men • Ralph Waldo Emerson

... Blindness" is, we believe, as perfect a monogram as exists, and will remain likely untouched and unadded to, factum ad unguem. As may be seen from these remarks, we regard him not so much as, like Edward Forbes, a great observer and quiet generalizer, or, like Samuel Brown, a discoverer and philosopher properly so called—though, as we have said, he had enough of these two men's prime qualities to understand and relish and admire them. His great quality lay in making men ...
— Spare Hours • John Brown



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