monumentalizationn.
/ˌmɒnjᵿˌmɛntl̩ʌɪˈzeɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌmɑnjəˌmɛn(t)əˌlaɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/, /ˌmɑnjəˌmɛn(t)ələˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ The action or process of making something monumental, the erection of monuments; (also) the state of being monumental.
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society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > recording by
monumentalization1870
monumentalizing1881
1870 G. A. Townsend New World compared with Old ix. 264 This age and people are no exception to the human passion for monumentalization.
1877 C. P. Smyth Our Inheritance in Great Pyramid (ed. 3) I. iii. 32 This monumentalisation of superhuman contemporary knowledge.
1948 Speculum 23 518 A monumental representation, a fresco or a mosaic, was used as a model for a miniature so that the monumentalization of the composition had been achieved before it entered the manuscript.
1975 ELH 42 239 His [sc. Wordsworth's] daring monumentalization of lowliness in the poem Peter Bell.
1999 P. Curtis Sculpture 1900–45 ii. 61 Lenin's image was replaced by that of Stalin—the difference being that Stalin's monumentalization took place during the subject's lifetime.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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