Definition of "singularize" []

• To make conspicuous; distinguish. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Jewish suffering in occupied France was further relativized by two contradictory attitudes: an insensitivity, born of hostility, to the murder of Jews; and a generous universalistic desire not to singularize Jews as victims but to see them primarily as human casualties of German terror and Vichy perfidy in France."
• "The article plays its essential role, which is to singularize an object among the class designated by the noun, which is a possibility that does not exist in English, since it uses the article in both cases."
• "That which you singularize, I pluralize and I believe I am more accurate about that."