presentify
English
Etymology
Etymology tree
From present (adjective) + -ify, literally “to make present”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɹɛzəntɪfaɪ/
Verb
presentify (third-person singular simple present presentifies, present participle presentifying, simple past and past participle presentified)
- (ambitransitive) to make something (especially from the past) appear present or immediately relevant
- Antonyms: pastify, absentify
- 1973, Käte Hamburger, The Logic of Literature[1], page 65:
- [...] nevertheless we still have not advanced far beyond the modification of Goethe’s pronouncement undertaken already by Schiller: “that literary art compels even the epic poet to presentify, or present as present, that which has happened”
- 1993, James Nielson, Unread Herrings, page 56:
- Drama is actually there; poetry attempts to presentify the absent; prose just sits around, unobtrusive-like.
- 2022, JoAnn Pavletich, Yours for Humanity: New Essays on Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, page 154:
- As I will demonstrate through close examination of Hopkins’s novels, the texts intervene in the dominating revisionist and pastifying discourse and narratively presentify America’s antebellum past by illustrating slavery’s lasting effects on a post-Reconstruction present.
Derived terms
Translations
to make something appear present or immediately relevant
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