devulgarization

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English

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Etymology

From devulgarize +‎ -ation. Attested since the 20th century.

Noun

devulgarization (uncountable)

  1. To process of devulgarizing something.
    • 1920, Robert Ranpulph Marett, Psychology and Folk-lore, page 99:
      It may be figured as a vertical process, one of rise or fall; fall of value or vulgarization being on the whole more in evidence in the special field of folk-lore than rise of value or devulgarization.