Etymology

Newmanize

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Today it means: To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation. Full definition →

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Coined as Newman + -ize by Matthew Arnold in a lecture at Oxford on November 30, 1861 (published in 1862 as On Translating Homer: Last Words) in which he criticized a translation by Francis William Newman.

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