antiquization

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1. countableuncountableThe act or result of antiquizing

   It is a frequent device in German prose to indicate a stylization or antiquization on the part of a speaker.

   1967, Edwin Arnley Hopkins, The Accusative Object as a Verbal Complement in German, pages 74–75

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   Streets would not only be finely paved and perfectly clean, but beautifully adorned with two identical rows of arcades or houses of the same height in an antiquization of a medieval fabric.

   2001, Barbara Czarniawska-Joerges, Rolf Solli, editors, Organizing Metropolitan Space and Discourse, →ISBN, page 40

   Especially in the description of the Orinoco river journey through the Venezuelan rain forest Humboldt makes use of diverse classical images. The antiquization as cognitive and aesthetic strategy is thus intensified in certain places of the travel narrative, in a specific spatial-mythological and cultural-philosophical context.[…]The Relation historique du Voyage aux Régions équinoxiales du Nouveau Continent speaks of the metamorphoses of a European discourse in the struggle to grasp the geographically and culturally foreign. It may be read as a narrative about the failure of the antiquization of America and about the deconstruction of classicism.

   2012, Oliver Lubrich, “Like Bronze Statues of Antiquity 2000”, in Rex Clark, Oliver Lubrich, editors, Cosmos and Colonialism: Alexander von Humboldt in Cultural Criticism, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, pages 285, 291

   Classical art and, correspondingly, the “antiquizations” of medieval art and classicist styles of the New Time were treated with piety.

   2017, Armen Kazaryan, “Part X. Armenia and Georgia”, “44. The “Classical” Trend of the Armenian Architectural School of Ani: The Greco-Roman Model and the Conversion of Medieval Art”, in Zara Martirosova Torlone, Dana LaCourse Munteanu, Dorota Dutsch, editors, A Handbook to Classical Reception in Eastern and Central Europe, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 530