Definition of Literalize

1. Verb. Make literal. "Literalize metaphors"

Exact synonyms: Literalise
Generic synonyms: Construe, Interpret, See
Antonyms: Spiritualize

Definition of Literalize

1. v. t. To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.

Definition of Literalize

1. Verb. To make literal or prosaic ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Literalize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Literalize

literal belief
literal error
literal interpretation
literal rule
literalise
literalism
literalisms
literalist
literalistic
literalistically
literalists
literalities
literality
literalization
literalizations
literalize (current term)
literalized
literalizer
literalizers
literalizes
literalizing
literally
literalness
literalnesses
literals
literarily
literariness
literarinesses
literary
literary agent

Literary usage of Literalize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Quakerism Not Christianity: Or: Reasons for Renouncing the Doctrine of Friends by Samuel Hanson Cox (1833)
"The style of the passage is plainly proverbial and figurative; and it is for those only to be privileged to literalize its meaning, whose practice ..."

2. That Unknown Country: Or, what Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment (1888)
"We cannot literalize the gehenna, limiting it to the valley of Hinnom, and not literalize the rest of the passage concerning the eye and the hand and the ..."

3. That Unknown Country: Or, what Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment (1889)
"We cannot literalize the gehenna, limiting it to the valley of Hinnom, and not literalize the rest of the passage concerning the eye and the hand and the ..."

4. That Unknown Country: Or, What Living Men Believe Concerning Punishment by Lyman Abbott (1888)
"We cannot literalize the ... limiting it to the valley of Hinnom, and not literalize the rest of the passage concerning the eye and the hand and the foot. ..."

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