[f. next + -ATION. Cf. F. verbalisation.] The action of verbalizing or the fact of being verbalized.
1846. Worcester (citing Palmer).
1860. G. P. Marsh, Lect. Eng. Lang., xiv. The verbalization, if I may so express it, of a noun, is now a difficult matter.
a. 1901. F. W. Myers, Hum. Personal. (1903), I. 27. Each of the four forms of communication, of verbalisation, with which human life is familiar.
