Monsterise vs Monsterize - What's the difference?
monsterise | monsterize | Alternative forms |
To give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify.
* 1851 , The British Friend , Volume 9, page 22
* 1997 , Harry M. Benshoff, Monsters in the closet: homosexuality and the horror film , page 330
* 2005 , Outlook , Volume 45, Issues 9-16
To make something or another into a monster or the appearance of
* 2010 , various, Vampirella Archives , Volume 1, page 331
To give another very bad reputation, demonize, vilify
* 2003 , Belinda Morrissey, When women kill: questions of agency and subjectivity , page 25
* 2002 , Mark Thornton Burnett, Constructing 'monsters' in Shakespearean drama and early modern culture , page 93
*:The particular conjunction of politics and 'monsters' in Richard III ' monsterizes ' an already 'monstrous' language and institution, a reflection of the level of anxiety generated by the succession crisis in the 1590s.
* '2006'', Michael Finkel, ''True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa
Monsterize is a alternative form of monsterise.
As verbs the difference between monsterise and monsterize
is that monsterise is to give (another) very bad reputation; to demonize, vilify while monsterize is to make something or another into a monster or the appearance of.monsterise
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Alternative forms
* monsterizeVerb
(monsteris)- and it would seem, as if to atone for that deficiency in the eyes of " a hero worshipper," that Macaulay had determined to monsterise him into an embodiment of inconsistency, deceit, and simulation.
- (quite literally monsterise ) queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and costs of such representations might be for both individual spectators and culture at large.
- A similarity that runs deeper than the differences in these two unrelated incidents, these separate times that we have allocated to monsterising and mortifying our teenagers.
Hyponyms
* vampirize, vampirise * zombifymonsterize
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Alternative forms
* monsteriseVerb
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- Vilification/monsterization denies agency by insisting upon the evil nature of the murderess, thus causing her to lose
- “I'd admit the past & monsterize' myself in the eyes of the jury,” he wrote. “I would try to be emotionless, to add credibility to that ' monsterization .