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strangify

verb

Etymology

From strange + -ify.

  1. derived from extrāneus — “that which is on the outside”
  2. derived from estrange
  3. inherited from straunge
  4. formed as strangify — “strange + -ify”

Definitions

  1. To make strange or exotic.

  2. To extend so as to be accessible to others

    To extend so as to be accessible to others; to universalize.

    • Through appropriating a language understandable to others, we shall be able to strangify ourselves via that kind of language .
    • Unwillingness to appropriate other language and to strangify would mean self-contentment with, or self-enclosure in, one's own micro-world, cultural world, or religious world.

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