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unmodernizes

unmodernizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unmodernize.

Meaning of unmodernize

Verb

unmodernize (third-person singular simple present unmodernizes, present participle unmodernizing, simple past and past participle unmodernized)

  1. (uncommon) 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

Questions about unmodernizes

What is unmodernizes the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Unmodernizes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of unmodernize.

Words near unmodernizes in the dictionary

  1. unmodernity
  2. unmodernizable
  3. unmodernization
  4. unmodernize
  5. unmodernized
  6. unmodernizes
  7. unmodernizing
  8. unmodest
  9. unmodifiability
  10. unmodifiable
  11. unmodifiableness

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