Meaning of pejorize | Babel Free

Definitions

To render pejorative.

rare, transitive

Examples

“It is enough that we are all as yet mere children in knowledge without being so foolish also as to aggravate and pejorize the situation with our hoydenish conduct.”

“On the other hand, the fact that OE cniht means not only 'boy, youth', but also 'servant' reflects a different, pejorizing tendency which likewise has parallels elsewhere.”

“At the same time, the desire to see or to represent the community as one, as a universitas, is both idealized and pejorized by thinking of it as “one voice,” since vocal singular interests supposedly oppose the communal interests of the speaking assembly.”

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