namierise

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A form of namierize — To explain history or political science by means of Namierization.

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namierise1

verbnamierise (third-person singular simple present namierises, present participle namierising, simple past and past participle namierised)

present singular third person namierises · participle present namierising · participle past namierised · past namierised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Namierize.

    Cowling, a Tory, 'namierised' politics at the accession of George VI.

    2002, Richard J. B. Bosworth, Explaining Auschwitz and Hiroshima, page 208
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    As the noblest of games, cricket has inspired a whole tribe of pious historians, and their researches enable us to namierise the Hambledon men.

    1962, Political Science - Volumes 14-15, pages 21–22

    Few books have suffered a greater pulverisation by its critics than 278 , an attempt to namierise the 1700s .

    1980, John Stephen Morrill, John Wroughton, Seventeenth Century Britain, 1603-1714, page 52

Namierise2

verbNamierise (third-person singular simple present Namierises, present participle Namierising, simple past and past participle Namierised)

present singular third person Namierises · participle present Namierising · participle past Namierised · past Namierised

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Namierize.
    3 more examples

    Hence I have always kept trying, with indifferent success, to persuade good historians to Namierise the present: this has been left too much in the hands of sociologists, not well briefed about the intimate details of recent history, and of political pamphleteers (as in the Left Book Club days) to whom we in political science owe much.

    1975, W.J.M. Mackenzie, Explorations in Government: Collected Papers: 1951–1968, page xxiv

    The reappraisal of Augustan politics in particular, the reassertion that the post-Revolution era saw a protracted and bitter party struggle over religion, finance, and Britain's role in Europe, not to mention the lingering legacy of a disputed succession, has forestalled any attempt to Namierise the period as a whole, and has heightened the contrast between the volatility of the opening decades and the near-stultification of the mid-century.

    1984, Margaret C. Jacob, James Randall Jacob, The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism, page 152

    My old friend Geoffrey Milburn in the days of his service to Sunderland Poly was inveigled by David Jeremy into one of them, producing a useful paper on Methodist business men in the North-East, which included an equally useful biographical appendix. This attempt to Namierise a regional class of Methodist business-men shows principally two things.

    2006, David Jeremy, Religion, Business and Wealth in Modern Britain, page 69

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