demodernize

Verb

demodernize (third-person singular simple present demodernizes, present participle demodernizing, simple past and past participle demodernized)

1. To remove modern elements or amenities from, to cause to revert to a pre-modern state.
   • He actually began to demodernize this splendid mill and install the ancient features of the old one he had left, and would have done it had not the authorities stopped him. He had his coat off and sleeves rolled up, ...1916, The Wood-worker, page 37
   • My argument implies the legacies of the early modern and colonial periods (modernity and coloniality) and joins forces with efforts to demodernize and decolonize scholarship as well as discourse in the public sphere that emerged ...1999, Doris Sommer, The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 49