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monstrification en · NOUN

Etymology

From monster + -ification.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of making something monstrous.
   • Although Ezekiel shares with other biblical authors (e.g., the writer of Isa 51:9–10) this view of Egypt as a monster, Ezekiel's monstrification of Egypt is unique. 2015, Safwat Marzouk, Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel, page 239:
   • His origin amongst monsters and man-eaters signals the play's recurrent concerns with monstrification, with eating others or being eaten by them, and with issues of specularity […] 1995, Bradley William Johnson, Birthed Effects: Shakespeare's Generation of Monsters, page 67:

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