单词 | rebunking |
释义 | rebunkingn. The action of rebunk v.; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1930 R. Rothschild Paradoxy 1 The debunking process is often no more than a rebunking, whereby we merely dedicate ourselves to a new shibboleth. 1940 Amer. Econ. Rev. 30 273 I doubt very much whether Karl Marx, who after all was a very learned man, would have enjoyed this ‘rebunking’ of history. 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 May 291/4 We live in an age of rebunking, when it has become fashionable once more to take the Victorians almost as solemnly as they took themselves. 1987 Times 13 Jan. 16 A memorial service..will provide the opportunity for rebunking. 1992 C. Paglia Sex, Art & Amer. Culture 123 I proceed not by the cynical Stracheyan debunking of modern disillusion but by a rebunking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1930 |
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