namierize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To explain history or political science by means of Namierization.
verb
Alternative form of Namierize.
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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 ?"
- "R. Walcott's attempt to Namierize this period has very properly been discounted by later writers and critics."
- "A whole school of historians sprang up to apply the technique elsewhere, to "namierize" English history, and to provoke a vigorous reaction."
- "but it is not my purpose here to join this debate; I do not propose to namierize Namier or sociologize Sorokin."
- "It does not seek to “namierize” the Liberal Members of Parliament, or to view through the microscope the party in the constituencies."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Suffix: ize