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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

dehistoricize en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + historicize.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
    • Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it. 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
dehistoricizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
dehistoricizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dehistoricized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
dehistoricized Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

dehistoricization