formalization

A debt limit increase is merely the formalization of that consent.

It was a device set up in the orthodox churches as a definite formalization of a creed.

The formalization of family life in marriage contracts was stimulated by writing.

The formalization of an art course given to the general student, kills the live material and leaves the student himself cold.

American, despite the gallant efforts of the professors, has so far escaped any such suffocating formalization.