Meanings
verbunmodernize (third-person singular simple present unmodernizes, present participle unmodernizing, simple past and past participle unmodernized)
present singular third person unmodernizes · participle present unmodernizing · participle past unmodernized · past unmodernized
- uncommonTo demodernize.
Though the first in effect unmodernizes the modern while the second stresses the unmodernity of the past, both look away from the new world of production by way of denaturalizing contemporary conditions ...
1998, Douglas Mao, Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 146
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unmodernize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmodernize
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“unmodernize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmodernize. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unmodernize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unmodernize.
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