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語源

literal +‎ -ize

動詞

literalize (三人称単数 現在形 literalizes, 現在分詞 literalizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 literalized)

1. To make literal or prosaic
   • 2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 7:

     The popular "peephole" style of cover art, suggesting stolen glimpses into exotic interior territories at once psychological and geographical, literalized the voyeuristic appeal of early postwar paperback art.

   • 2009 January 15, Ben Ratliff, “Club Jazz That Travels a Line Between Old Fashions and New Tastes”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The band seemed at the start to literalize a mysterious piece of writing; its structure was clear when this band played it.

派生語

• literalization

アナグラム

• alliterize