[f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ENERGIZE.

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  a.  The action or process of awakening to energy or activity. b. The action of displaying energy; energetic action.

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1851.  Fraser’s Mag., XLIII. 323/1. The curbing of our mischievous propensities, and the energizing of our good ones.

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1854.  Hickok, Sc. Mind, 241. A nisus, or energizing towards a presented object.

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1862.  Goulburn, Pers. Relig., iii. (1873), 22. The fruits of the spirit … are not the result of the energizing of our own will.

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