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English
Etymology
nonsense + -ify
Verb
nonsensify (third-person singular simple present nonsensifies, present participle nonsensifying, simple past and past participle nonsensified)
- (transitive and intransitive, rare) To treat as, transform into, or create nonsense, whether intentionally or unintentionally.
- 1872, A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, Printed for private collection, "St. Peter's Complaint," p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2):
- Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting "works" for "words."
1949, Wilson Library Bulletin,, volume 24, page 241:The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.
2001, Phillip Harth et al., Eighteenth-century Contexts: Historical Inquiries in Honor of Phillip Harth, →ISBN, page 84:But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.
- 2002, Alun Rees, "Golf: Maruyama outshone," Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.:
- The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled.
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