Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To memorialize with a monument.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To record or commemorate by a monument; record permanently; render monumental in character.
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- verb To make something become or appear
monumental
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb record or memorialize lastingly with a monument
Etymologies
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Examples
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An occupation of Wall Street to monumentalize the already very imposing (at 6'8) Paul Volcker, and to adopt the tax suggestions of one of Wall Street's most ruthless and accomplished sharks, good old Uncle Warren in his viyella shirt and corduroy trousers, (who paid less than $7 million on income of $63 million last year), is a piquant confession of the innocence of the occupiers once they get south of Canal Street.
Conrad Black: My Manifesto For the Occupy Movement Conrad Black 2011
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To monumentalize this observation into a method of reading would be to regress from the rigor exhibited by Shelley which is exemplary because it refuses to be generalized into a system.
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Refusing to monumentalize, disdaining the "final word", the precise "summing up", acknowledging their "poor power to add or detract", his words signal deference to the uncapturability of the life it mourns.
Nobel Lecture 1993
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Refusing to monumentalize, disdaining the "final word," the precise "summing up," acknowledging their "poor power to add or detract", his words signal deference to the uncapturability of the life it mourns.
Nobel Lecture 1993
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Printed large, the Ejaculate in Trajectory photos monumentalize the artist's seed.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Philippe Parreno, tracks the great French-Algerian soccer player The Exorcist - served to monumentalize ephemeral moments.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Philippe Parreno, tracks the great French-Algerian soccer player The Exorcist - served to monumentalize ephemeral moments.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Philippe Parreno, tracks the great French-Algerian soccer player The Exorcist - served to monumentalize ephemeral moments.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Philippe Parreno, tracks the great French-Algerian soccer player The Exorcist - served to monumentalize ephemeral moments.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Philippe Parreno, tracks the great French-Algerian soccer player The Exorcist - served to monumentalize ephemeral moments.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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