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antiquization

noun

Etymology

From antique + -ization.

  1. derived from antiquus — “former, earlier, ancient, old”
  2. borrowed from antique — “ancient, old”
  3. suffixed as antiquization — “antique + ization”

Definitions

  1. The act or result of antiquizing

    • It is a frequent device in German prose to indicate a stylization or antiquization on the part of a speaker.
    • Streets would not only be finely paved and perfectly clean, but beautifully adorned with two identical rows of arcades or houses of the same height in an antiquization of a medieval fabric.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA