newmanize
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation.
Derogatory
Example Sentences
- "To grunt and sweat under a weary load does perfectly well where it comes in Shakspeare: but if the translator of Homer, who will hardly have wound up our minds to the pitch at which these words of Hamlet find them, were to employ, when he has to speak of Homer's heroes under the load of calimity, this figure of 'grunting' and 'sweating' we should say, he Newmanizes, and his diction would offend us."
- "Mr. Way, in fact, is a little inclined to "Newmanize"—a fault which we hoped Mr. Matthew Arnold had long ago crushed. Pure English of the simple sort is amply sufficient for the translating of Homer, as has been abundantly proved by the "Variorum" prose translations of the Odyssey and Iliad; there is no excuse for the mongrel vocabulary into which Mr. Way sometimes falls, for it must be understood that his mistakes are by no means equally distributed, but obviously come thickest in books where the current of the poem runs least clear and strong, where a translator may most easily be excused for signs of weariness."
- "And he concludes, to quote the Indian newmanized translation: That association […] of man and woman when the latter, herself coveting, fails to obtain an individual of the opposite sex that does not covet her, is, instead of being a merit, only a fault that is as noxious as poison."
Etymology
Coined as Newman + -ize by Matthew Arnold in a lecture at Oxford on November 30, 1861 (published in 1862 as On Translating Homer: Last Words) in which he criticized a translation by Francis William Newman.