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Definition of Monumentalise
1. Verb. Record or memorialize lastingly with a monument.
Generic synonyms: Commemorate, Immortalise, Immortalize, Memorialise, Memorialize, Record
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monumentalise
Literary usage of Monumentalise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"... representation 1 Do not nature and real life supply us with looks and gestures,
which it is, or is not, the business of the artist to monumentalise ? ..."
2. Life of William Blake: With Selections from His Poems and Other Writings by Alexander Gilchrist (1880)
"As a historical picture then, Blake felt it his duty to monumentalise this design
with due inscription. Two of the three hand-coloured versions, ..."
3. Letters of James Smetham by James Smetham (1892)
"... and because of the ascetic strength of soul which God gave me, I went upward
to fetch the implement of art, that I might monumentalise what the dwellers ..."
4. Village Work in India: Pen Pictures from a Missionary's Experience by Norman Russell (1902)
"... India's people to Christianity; and even among missionaries there has been no
little tendency to monumentalise our religion by architectural display. ..."
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