dehistoricize

English

Etymology

From de- +‎ historicize.

Verb

dehistoricize (third-person singular simple present dehistoricizes, present participle dehistoricizing, simple past and past participle dehistoricized)

1. (transitive) To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
   • 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:

     Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.

Derived terms

• dehistoricization