nominalize

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Verb (transitive)
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nom=i=nal=ize

CIDE DICTIONARY

nominalizev. t. 
     To convert into a noun; as, a nominalized sentence; a nominalized adjective or verb.  [1913 Webster]
    "In a sentence of the form:
    “That Kennedy would have been a great president if he had not been assassinated is one of the enduring myths of the Camelot conceit.“
    the sentence “Kennedy would have been a great president if he had not been assassinated” has been nominalized by the introductory “that”.
    "  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

nominalize, v.tr. (also -ise) form a noun from (a verb, adjective, etc.), e.g. output, truth, from put out, true.

Derivative
nominalization n.

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