namierize

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verb

To explain history or political science by means of Namierization.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

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verbnamierize (third-person singular simple present namierizes, present participle namierizing, simple past and past participle namierized)

present singular third person namierizes · participle present namierizing · participle past namierized · past namierized

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Namierize.

    but it is not my purpose here to join this debate; I do not propose to namierize Namier or sociologize Sorokin.

    1976, Working Papers: International Symposium on Quantitative Methods in the History of Science, page 66
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    A whole school of historians sprang up to apply the technique elsewhere, to "namierize" English history, and to provoke a vigorous reaction.

    1958, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Earl Gregg Swem, Richard Lee Morton, The William and Mary quarterly, page 257

    It does not seek to “namierize” the Liberal Members of Parliament, or to view through the microscope the party in the constituencies.

    2011, Trevor Wilson, The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935

Namierize2

verbNamierize (third-person singular simple present Namierizes, present participle Namierizing, simple past and past participle Namierized)

present singular third person Namierizes · participle present Namierizing · participle past Namierized · past Namierized · alternative namierize · alternative Namierise · alternative namierise

  1. To explain history or political science by means of Namierization.

    R. Walcott's attempt to Namierize this period has very properly been discounted by later writers and critics.

    1979, The Eighteenth Century - Volume 20, page 106
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    To "Namierize" Brownsville, showing how much each person there contributed to its peculiar American-Jewish civilization, and how it contributed to their culture, and to indicate why one person went one way, and another turned in another direction would require many volumes and be beyond the goal which Dr. Landesman set himself.

    1971, Alter F. Landesman, Brownsville: the birth, development, and passing of a Jewish community in New York, page ix

    For a profession dedicated to examining the changing circumstances and background of historical developments, we have been unusually disinclined to scrutinize ourselves in such a manner; perhaps someone should 'Namierize' the historians, their inclinations and backgrounds, and what they think of their subject ?

    1974, Walter Laqueur, George Lachmann Mosse, Historians in politics, page 351

Origin

Namier + -ize, from Lewis Namier (1888–1960), British historian.

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