de-bourgeoisify

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Etymology

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From de- +‎ bourgeoisify.

Verb

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de-bourgeoisify (third-person singular simple present de-bourgeoisifies, present participle de-bourgeoisifying, simple past and past participle de-bourgeoisified)

  1. To remove the bourgeois characteristics or qualities from (someone or something)
    • 2003, Bruce Boehrer, “The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeare's Theatre”, in Richard Dutton, Jean E. Howard, editors, A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays[1], Malden, MA: Blackwell, page 70:
      To this extent, Artaud's work may be viewed as an attempt to de-bourgeoisify the early twentieth-century theatre: to render it less cerebral, less literary, less refined, less circumscribed, more visceral.
    • 2008, Charles Rutheiser, “Capitalizing on Havana: The Return of the Repressed in a Late Socialist City”, in Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson, editors, A Companion to the City[2], Malden, MA: Blackwell, page 228:
      Despite the freezing out of formal residential uses, some areas of the frozen zone were thoroughly "de-bourgeoisified" [] through the conversion of housing stock into dormitories for students from the provinces.

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