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Meaning of demodernization | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Reversion from modernization to a pre-modern state; removal of modern elements or amenities from.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“A modern account by the eminent scholar Omer Bartov emphasises such factors as the general demodernization of warfare on this [WWII Eastern] front; the ways in which massive casualties destroyed the loyalties of micro, primary groups, leaving soldiers with nothing to identify with other than the macro group of race and nation; [...]”
“Ranging from U.S. bombing theory, the systematic deelectrification of Iraq in 1991, continuing Israeli demodernizations of urban life in the Occupied Territories, and the emerging doctrine of state cyberwarfare, Graham ultimately emphasizes the importance of infrastructural warfare...”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

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