[f. next + -ATION.] The action of the verb; the fact or process of becoming universal.

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1798.  Monthly Rev., XXVI. 538. A language already so general must, for that very reason, tend to universalization.

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1840.  G. S. Faber, Christ’s Disc. Capernaum, 225. [A] sentence, which … would have changed this Apparent Universalization into Real Generalization.

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1886.  W. Graham, Social Problem, 13. A universalisation of the practice [of striking] over the entire field of labour.

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