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unmodernize en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + modernize.

Meanings

  1. (uncommon) To demodernize.
    • Though the first in effect unmodernizes the modern while the second stresses the unmodernity of the past, both look away from the new world of production by way of denaturalizing contemporary conditions ... 1998, Douglas Mao, Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 146:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
unmodernizes Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
unmodernizing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unmodernized Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
unmodernized Tense=Past lexicographic

Deriveds

unmodernization