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Unifying

Unify \U"ni*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Unified; p. pr. & vb. n. Unifying.] [Uni- + -fy: cf. F. unifier.] To cause to be one; to make into a unit; to unite; to view as one.

A comprehensive or unifying act of the judging faculty.
--De Quincey.

Perception is thus a unifying act.
--Sir W. Hamilton.

Wiktionary
unifying
  1. Tending to unify; promoting unity; uniting. n. unification v

  2. (present participle of unify English)

WordNet
unifying
  1. adj. combining into a single unit [syn: consolidative]

  2. tending to unify [syn: centripetal, unifying(a)]

Usage examples of "unifying".

Republic remains as a unifying cant, a test of orthodoxy of as little practical significance there as the communism of Jesus and communion with Christ in Christendom, while beneath this creed a small oligarchy which has attained power by its profession does its obstinate best, much hampered by the suspicion and hostility of the Western financiers and politicians, to carry on a series of interesting and varyingly successful experiments in the socialization of economic life.

Once again, the unifying power of the subaltern nation is a double-edged sword, at once progressive and reactionary.

The unifying, internal process was hindered by the cold war, but not completely blocked by it.

What might have seemed like a coherent central axis of the restructuring of global production was shattered into a thousand particular fragments and the unifying process was experienced everywhere singularly.

Far from being unidimensional, the process of restructuring and unifying command over production was actually an explosion of innumerable different productive systems.

In other words, Third World, South, and periphery all homogenize real differences to highlight the unifying processes of capitalist development, but also and more important, they name the potential unity of an international opposition, the potential confluence of anticapitalist countries and forces.

The unifying matrix and the most dominant value of imperial administration lie in its local effectiveness.

United States where religious language has profound effects, and where those effects extend beyond believers, is in our choice of a unifying metaphor around which we can organize our lives and our behavior.

Even the quickest glance around the shelves of a Christian bookstore will make it unmistakably clear that the dominant unifying religious metaphor for the ordinary religious person is the Warrior.

First, can you identify a comparable unifying metaphor in your other language or languages?

It is because we desire a unification of human direction, not simply for the sake of unity, but as a means of release to happiness and power, that it is necessary, at any cost--in delay, in loss of effective force, in strategic or tactical disadvantage--that the light of free, abundant criticism should play upon that direction and upon the movements and unifying organizations leading to the establishment of that unifying direction.

This is largely because scientific work has no strong unifying organization and cannot in itself develop such an organization.

The churches are neglected, and nothing of a unifying or exalting sort takes their place.

Its subject is majesty, not tyranny, and its political purpose was unifying and enfolding, to elide the kingliness of God with the godliness of kings, to make royal power and divine glory into one indivisible garment which could be wrapped around the nation as a whole.

The heart of their thinking was divisive, not part of the unifying national project.