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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dedemonize en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + demonize.

Meanings

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To make undemonic; to normalize.
    • My theory again: high comedy is always a defeat of the chthonian. The Bostonians is The Blithedale Romance dedaemonized. 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
    • Tragically, by 1991 he was dying of AIDS, the disease that she had worked so hard to 'dedemonise' in the light of the public taboos against it. 2016, Ken Wharfe, Robert Jobson, Diana – Closely Guarded Secret:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dedemonized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dedemonized Tense=Past lexicographic
dedemonizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
dedemonizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic