de-bourgeoisifying

Verb

de-bourgeoisify (third-person singular simple present de-bourgeoisifies, present participle de-bourgeoisifying, simple past and past participle de-bourgeoisified)

1. To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something)
   • To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral.2003, Bruce Boehrer, “The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre”, in Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard, editors, A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems...