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antiquification

antiquification noun: the process of antiquifying.

Noun

antiquification (uncountable)

  1. The process of antiquifying.
    • Many of these later versions are, oddly, put into duple meter; for an edition of one such, based on Granada 3, see José López Calo, La música en la catedral de Granada en el siglo XVI (Granada, 1963), vol. II, pp. 151–3, commentary pp. xxi–xxii. Burgos s.s. puts the piece in 𝄵 meter, and Plasencia...2004, Kenneth Kreitner, “5. Cornago and Urrede”, in The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain, The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 78
    • Describing a process of antiquification-through-layering, Cooper lays a theoretical groundwork for localities to take on historical interest regardless of chronological age, and reciprocally, suggests one can, by focusing on local layers, elicit the sense of antiquity which seemed so elusive in the...2007, Jeffrey Walker, Reading Cooper, Teaching Cooper, AMS Press, →ISBN, page 336

Examples of antiquification in a sentence

  • Burgos s.s. puts the piece in 𝄵 meter, and Plasencia 4 in Ͼ, which makes no sense and may be a selfconscious antiquification.2004, Kenneth Kreitner, “5. Cornago and Urrede”, in The Church Music of Fifteenth-Century Spain, The Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 78:
  • Regis discusses what she terms the “antiquification” of black cultural practices in photographic representations of the second line.2013, Lewis Watts, Eric Porter, “Section 2: Reflections on Jazz Fest 2006”, in New Orleans Suite: Music and Culture in Transition...

Origin of antiquification

From antique + -ification.

Questions about antiquification

What does antiquification mean?
Antiquification means the process of antiquifying.
How do you use antiquification in a sentence?
Burgos s.s. puts the piece in 𝄵 meter, and Plasencia 4 in Ͼ, which makes no sense and may be a selfconscious antiquification.
What part of speech is antiquification?
Antiquification is a noun.

Words near antiquification in the dictionary

  1. antiques shop
  2. antiques store
  3. antiques stores
  4. antiquest
  5. antiquey
  6. antiquification
  7. antiquified
  8. antiquifies
  9. antiquify
  10. antiquifying
  11. antiquing

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