Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of literalizing or rendering literal; the act of reducing to a literal meaning. Also spelled
literalisation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act or process of
literalizing .
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Examples
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Some reviewers have pointed out that this premise is a kind of literalization of a metaphor or series of metaphors that will feel appropriate and even familiar to most city dwellers, and that's true, but I think there's more to it.
Archive 2009-06-01 2009
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Some reviewers have pointed out that this premise is a kind of literalization of a metaphor or series of metaphors that will feel appropriate and even familiar to most city dwellers, and that's true, but I think there's more to it.
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Not an anatomical literalization of a questionable anthropological concept floating among many others on a fun, yes, but scarcely reliable website even students are cautioned against taking too seriously.
Vamsee Juluri: Lord Shiva And The Economist: A New Low For Journalism Vamsee Juluri 2011
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I mean, that's the other part of the story is that these physical fights are just sort of, you know, literalization of these metaphorical emotional things that we all go through in a relationship.
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The literalization of the City of God on earth, manifest in the following century by El Escorial in Spain, was endemic to temporal concerns after overseas voyages had ruptured and doubled the known world. 299 159
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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With Shelley's drawing in English on those interchangeable speech sounds "O" and "Oh," his ode momentarily arrests that move into literalization, into discourse, or pretends to, in a cross-lexical alphabetic suspension — even in the very fashioning of its first signifying transit; and even in the equivocation of its monosyllabic letter sounds.
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I think a lot of people, especially in the emergent church movement, like that I took to task too much over literalization or legalism.
How to recover from a year of living Biblically « Dating Jesus 2009
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The original book was a literalization of childhood alienation say that four times fast, and turning it into a 100-minute film required the creation of much context and content.
"Hurt Locker" and "Where The Wild Things Are" (2009) Steven Barnes 2009
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The original book was a literalization of childhood alienation say that four times fast, and turning it into a 100-minute film required the creation of much context and content.
Archive 2009-10-01 Steven Barnes 2009
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"The City & The City starts with the literalization of a metaphor, but it doesn't end there, because ultimately it is not literalizing one metaphor but is, rather, literalizing an idea that is rich with metaphorical potential."
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