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English
Etymology
From un- + immortalize.
Verb
unimmortalize (third-person singular simple present unimmortalizes, present participle unimmortalizing, simple past and past participle unimmortalized)
- (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to not be immortal or to cease to be immortal; to mortalize.
1839, Philip James Bailey, Festus, page 365:Lucifer. They have well-nigh unimmortalized myself.
Festus. Yet they have nought to sate the pining spirit
Which doth enamour immortality.
1907, David Garrick, edited by George Pierce Baker, Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick, page 127:I long to hear you idolize Shakespeare & yr father unimmortalize him.
1972, Edward Meyerstein, A Life of Thomas Chatterton, page 145:“Here,” writes A Hunter of Bristolian Oddities, “you may see a surgeon, by the inspiration of vanity, metamorphosed into a wooden antiquarian and writer of epitaphs, which would unimmortalize the poetical pen of Stephen Duck.”