Demodernize

Quick meaning: Demodernize is a verb meaning To remove modern elements or amenities from, to cause to revert to a pre-modern state.

Meaning

To remove modern elements or amenities from, to cause to revert to a pre-modern state.

Example Sentences

He actually began to demodernize this splendid mill and install the ancient features of the old one he had left, and would have done it had not the authorities stopped him. He had his coat off and sleeves rolled up, .

My argument implies the legacies of the early modern and colonial periods (modernity and coloniality) and joins forces with efforts to demodernize and decolonize scholarship as well as discourse in the public sphere that emerged .

To erase the Soviet dimension of the Russian identity would be a reactionary and futile attempt to demodernize Russia. And beyond that it is simply an impossible task. The naive anti-Communist iconoclasm of the 1990s failed, after all.

The US and Israeli forces, for example, have long worked systematically to “demodernize” entire urban societies through the destruction of the life-support and infrastructure systems of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iraq since 1991 .

Word Forms

• demodernizes
• demodernizing
• demodernized

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include unmodernize, unmodernise, demod, demodify, demodularize, declassicize.

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