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Definition of Literalize
1. Verb. Make literal. "Literalize metaphors"
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
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Definition of Literalize
1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Literalize
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. ..."