ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Pumpkinification

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Pumpkinification is a noun meaning The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.

Meaning

The act of turning into a pumpkin; usually in jocular opposition to deification.

Example Sentences

Christianity, for example, admits females only as third-ranking immortals ("saints"), and many of its third-ranking gods, prior to their pumpkinification, were themselves vicious misogynists.
1992, Peter Russell, The Pound connection: in some poems, mainly uncollected or unpublished, Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik, Universität Salzburg, Brodsky's recent pumpkinification as America's "laureate" might be considered as a typical example of officialdom's "laureate" criteria.
1870, George Long, s.n. "Seneca, L. Annaeus", page 781 in Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, volume III. Apocolocyntosis, is a satire against the emperor Claudius. The word is a play on the term Apotheosis or deification, and is equivalent in meaning to Pumpkinification, or the reception of Claudius among the pumpkins.

Antonyms for pumpkinification

Common opposites include apotheosis, deification.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pompion, paganization, paganisation, phantomization, posterisation, poetization.

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