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synecdochize en · VERB

Etymology

From synecdoche + -ize.

Meanings

1. To represent with or as if with a synecdoche.
   • In this phenomenological sense, Berger is aware that in looking at Hals's paintings, he synecdochizes a partial perception, that he chooses to see specific... 1990, Clayton Koelb, Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra, page 173
   • The Finzi-Continis synecdochize the ethnic case par excellence. 1986, Marilyn Schneider, Vengeance of the Victim: History and Symbol in Giorgio Bassani's Fiction, page 41
   • The text may also proceduralize through the use of exemplars which constitute specific instances which tacitly stand for, or synecdochize, a whole class. 2002, Paul Dowling, The Sociology of Mathematics Education: Mathematical Myths / Pedagogic Texts, page 146
   • ...multiply inscribed within it, the smelling-bottles synecdochize the larger fragmentary "story" of woman, the "Gift" whose contours Augustus, seeing only through... 1990, Susan Hardy AikenRosi Braidotti, Paul Gilroy, Isak Dinesen and the Engendering of Narrative, page 173
   • ...for those things that synecdochize this relationship between the real and the spectral. 2016, S. Newstok, Ayanna Thompson, Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance, page 290

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synecdochisation · synecdochisations · synecdochise · synecdochization · synecdochizations