Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of antiquitization.
Plate 3 The ‘antiquitisation’ of Skopje, the Republic of North Macedonia 2017.
2020, Tricia Austin, Narrative Environments and Experience Design: Space as a Medium of Communication, Routledge, →ISBN2 more examples
Antiquitisation means the consignment of the forces of hinderances and obstructions, in the due fulfilment of the individual in freedom, to the oblivion of history. Freedom, peace and unity belong to antiquity but they have to be modernised.
1970, Ram Chandra Jain, Ethnology of Ancient Bhārata, page xxxiiFurther and closer analysis of Buchanan’s psalm paraphrases would probably show more clearly the Christianised theme of exile, with its modes of self-consolation, appeal, and invective, which does not seem obscured, but if anything rather intensified by the ‘antiquitisation’ of their imagery and code.
2009, Elwira Buszewicz, “6. Homo Exsul as the Lyric Persona in Buchanan’s Psalms”, in Philip Ford, Roger P. H. Green, editors, George Buchanan: Poet and Dramatist, The Classical Press of Wales, →ISBN, page 107
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