dehistoricize

English

Etymology

de- + historicize

Verb

dehistoricize (third-person singular simple present dehistoricizes, present participle dehistoricizing, simple past and past participle dehistoricized)

  1. (transitive) To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
    • 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
      Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.

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