itemizing

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of itemize

noun

1. The process by which something is itemized.

   “Now alive as he was to all these searching argumentative itemizings of the minutest known facts any way bearing upon the subject; and yet, at the same time, persuaded, strong as death, that in spite of them, Isabel was indeed his sister; how could Pierre […] fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness […] denominated The Finger of God?”