devulgarization
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]devulgarize + -ation. Attested since the 20th century.
Noun
[edit]devulgarization (uncountable)
- To process of devulgarizing something.
- 1920, Robert Ranpulph Marett, Psychology and Folk-lore, page 99:
- It may be figured as a vertical process, one of rise or fall; fall of value or vulgarization being on the whole more in evidence in the special field of folk-lore than rise of value or devulgarization.