Definition of "subtilizing" []

• Present participle of subtilize. (verb)

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• "You may think that I am subtilizing my impressions on purpose, but you may take it from a man who has lived a rough, a very rough life, that it is the subtleties of personalities, and contacts, and events, that count for interest and memory — and pretty well nothing else."
• "What a true believer like Dr. Mollinger takes for progress may be merely a change of intellectual fashion or a subtilizing of postulates that had little merit to begin with."
• "In them there is no subtilizing of human affections, of human fears, or of human faith."