Artifactualize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To convert into an artifact. transitive
"In Evelina, memory produces matriarchal resemblance; other Gothic novels artifactualize it in portraits. A father in The Orphan of the Rhine wears the miniature portrait of his dead wife, turning to it as confessional and icon […]"
Example
More examples"In Evelina, memory produces matriarchal resemblance; other Gothic novels artifactualize it in portraits. A father in The Orphan of the Rhine wears the miniature portrait of his dead wife, turning to it as confessional and icon […]"
Etymology
From artifactual + -ize.
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