deglorification

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English

Etymology

From de- +‎ glorification.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /diːˌɡlɔːɹɪfɪˈkeɪʃən/

Noun

deglorification (uncountable)

  1. The process of deglorifying; making something less glorious.
    • 2008 January 20, Isabel Kershner, “Dark Fissures of an Israeli Soldier’s Soul”, in New York Times:
      Debunking military myths and the deglorification of war is nothing new in Israeli culture.
    • 2011, Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature, Penguin, published 2012, page 201:
      Obviously the satirists' deglorification of war and Kant's practical ideas on how to reduce it did not catch on widely enough to spare Western civilization the catastrophes of the next century and a half.