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Etymology
From de- + contextualize.
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decontextualize (third-person singular simple present decontextualizes, present participle decontextualizing, simple past and past participle decontextualized)
- (transitive) To divest of context.
- Synonym: take out of context
- Antonym: contextualize
2019 June 27, Rasoul Mohsenzadeh, Mohammad Mostafavi Rad, “Dynamic History of Iranian Book Publishing in Political and Social Settings”, in Publishing Research Quarterly, volume 35, →DOI, page 514 of 500–516:In the early years of the Islamic Revolution, the Iranian government tried to control publishers through punitive policies, and then, as they were sure of having purged the publishing sector, gradually left it to its own devices. At first, fearing the repressive state apparatus, the author, the publisher and the audience turned to uncritical, mass-market books. Gradually, there was born an audience that preferred simple, ahistorical, and decontextualized narratives to socio-historical complexities and contradictions. Later, as the political atmosphere gradually opened up, the audiences raised in that historical timeframe remained the audience of the same uncritical works.
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