Meaning of Newmanize | Babel Free

Definitions

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

Examples

“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.”

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