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Definition of Literalization
1. n. The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
Definition of Literalization
1. Noun. The act or process of literalizing. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Literalization
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literalization
Literary usage of Literalization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher: In Plymouth Church, Brooklyn by Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1871)
"The mediaeval literalization of the Bible figures, and the carrying of them
forward with collateral and original illustrations of the same kind, ..."
2. Criticisms of life: studies in faith, hope and despair by Horace James Bridges (1915)
"... and petrified the metaphors of its Founder into hard, literal statements of fact.
Its central sacrament, the Eucharist, is an inexcusable literalization ..."
3. Shaker Sermons: Scripto-rational. Containing the Substance of Shaker by Harvey L. Eads (1879)
"... ensued between these foreign invisibles in "the woods," somewhere in the land
of Moab. I cannot close in with such literalization of the words of Jude. ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1888)
"... or it is a desire to act as God's vicegerent abnormally developed by morbid
introspection and gross literalization of those biblical passages which ..."
5. A Critical History of Free Thought in Reference to the Christian Religion by Adam Storey Farrar (1863)
"... he regards the incarnation and life of Christ as the mistaken literalization
on the part of contemporaries of their preconceived opinions. ..."
6. John's Gospel: The Greatest Book in the World; Suggestions for the Study of by Robert Elliott Speer (1915)
"... new conceptions and which would have misconstrued into worse misunderstanding
any language of His except such as might be incapable of literalization, ..."
7. Back from Utopia: The Challenge of the Modern Movementby Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen by Hubert-Jan Henket, Hilde Heynen (2002)
"... a phenomenon often overlooked in the heavy-handed glorification and literalization
of reality propounded by much contemporary virtual reality. ..."
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