monstrification
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From monster + -ification.
Noun
[edit]monstrification (countable and uncountable, plural monstrifications)
- The process of making something monstrous.
- 1995, Bradley William Johnson, Birthed Effects: Shakespeare's Generation of Monsters, page 67:
- His origin amongst monsters and man-eaters signals the play's recurrent concerns with monstrification, with eating others or being eaten by them, and with issues of specularity […]
- 2015, Safwat Marzouk, Egypt as a Monster in the Book of Ezekiel, page 239:
- Although Ezekiel shares with other biblical authors (e.g., the writer of Isa 51:9–10) this view of Egypt as a monster, Ezekiel's monstrification of Egypt is unique.