单词 | popularizing |
释义 | popularizingn. The action of popularize v. in various senses. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > clearness, lucidity > simplifying, popularization > [noun] simplification1751 popularization1797 popularizing1817 vulgarization1865 tabloidization1926 vulgarisation1939 haute vulgarisation1946 reductiveness1953 1817 S. T. Coleridge Let. Jan. (1959) IV. 1041 The cutting up..of the long sentences, & the reduction of the Parentheses—in short, the general popularizing of the Style. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity VI. xiv. iii. 450 The popularising of religious teaching. 1927 E. R. Groves Social Probl. of Family xiv. 232 The more widespread knowledge of the danger of the spread of disease, through the popularizing of the sciences of bacteriology and sanitation. 1998 R. McKibbin Classes & Cultures viii. 299 The popularizing of Freudian (or sub-Freudian) terminology in everyday speech, like ‘Oedipus complex’ or ‘Freudian slip’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). popularizingadj. That popularizes a person or thing; that seeks to makes something more widely known or liked. ΚΠ 1858 Times 20 Oct. 8/5 Mr. Ruskin's Paper on Art at the Liverpool meeting commences with a tribute to the popularizing object of the Association. 1930 W. Graham Eng. Literary Periodicals x. 296 Household Words was the first important example of a popularizing tendency which had been apparent since 1815, when several low-priced and low-quality periodicals began to appear on the market. 1982 J. Sledd in Eng. World-wide 3 ii. 246 While claiming that Black English is not inferior, many popularizing linguists act as if it is. 2005 Canberra (Austral.) Times (Nexis) 16 Apr. a13 Hammond, in her enthusiastic, popularising way, throws up some intriguing research while revealing how little is known for sure in this rather immature area of scientific study. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1817adj.1858 |
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