unmodernise
unmodernise is the alternative form of unmodernize.
Meaning of unmodernize
Verb
unmodernize (third-person singular simple present unmodernizes, present participle unmodernizing, simple past and past participle unmodernized)
- To demodernize.
- 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 ...1998, Douglas Mao, Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 146
Forms of unmodernise
| third-person singular present | unmodernises |
|---|---|
| present participle | unmodernising |
| past participle | unmodernised |
| past | unmodernised |
Questions about unmodernise
- What is unmodernise the alternative form of?
- Unmodernise is the alternative form of unmodernize.
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