Unmodernize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To demodernize. uncommon

    "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 ..."

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"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 ..."

Etymology

From un- + modernize.

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