Definitions
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- noun The act or process of
memorializing or creating amemorial
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something
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Examples
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Segev places Wiesenthal's life within a context almost unthinkable to Americans under 50 today, for whom Holocaust memorialization is a given.
Avenging 6 million murders Susan Jacoby 2010
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Segev places Wiesenthal's life within a context almost unthinkable to Americans under 50 today, for whom Holocaust memorialization is a given.
Avenging 6 million murders Susan Jacoby 2010
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Mr. Libeskind said he intended it as "more than a helpless kind of memorialization of the past" and a clarion call for a better future.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed OLIVER MOORE 2011
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Mr. Libeskind said he intended it as "more than a helpless kind of memorialization of the past" and a clarion call for a better future.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed OLIVER MOORE 2011
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Still, by devising a novel about the art of memorialization, he has crafted a poignantly human monument to our history.
The Rancher & the Sculptor Sam Sacks 2011
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To be particular, an objection to a curricular reference to the “Big Bang” or to “evolution” is not to be evaluated the same way one might evaluate an objection to the permanent memorialization of your educational accomplishments.
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Conflict memorialization reminds us of the horrors of the past to honor sacrifice, duty, and nationalistic ideology.
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Much of literature is memorialization—a way we have of assuaging our homesickness.
Louise McCready: Joyce Carol Oates on A Widow's Story Louise McCready 2011
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My first rebuttal to the Eisenhower statment about him being the only recent president without US Military deaths on his recors is one that ties in with your memorialization article: The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. Anyone who has seen the wall knows that it lists all the US military casualties from that conflict by year.
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With memorialization of conflict comes a closure of sorts, which lends itself to the healing process of old wounds … but there are scars that still remain.
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