unmodernize
unmodernize verb: to demodernize.
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 unmodernize
| third-person singular present | unmodernizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | unmodernizing |
| past participle | unmodernized |
| past | unmodernized |
Origin of unmodernize
From un- + modernize.
Words formed from unmodernize
Questions about unmodernize
- What does unmodernize mean?
- Unmodernize means to demodernize.
- What part of speech is unmodernize?
- Unmodernize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of unmodernize?
- The past tense of unmodernize is unmodernized.
Words near unmodernize in the dictionary
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