unimmortalize
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From un- + immortalize.
Verb
[edit]unimmortalize (third-person singular simple present unimmortalizes, present participle unimmortalizing, simple past and past participle unimmortalized)
- (transitive) To cause (someone or something) to not be immortal or to cease to be immortal; to mortalize.
- 1839, Philip James Bailey, Festus, page 365:
- Lucifer. They have well-nigh unimmortalized myself.
Festus. Yet they have nought to sate the pining spirit
Which doth enamour immortality.
- 1907, David Garrick, edited by George Pierce Baker, Some Unpublished Correspondence of David Garrick, page 127:
- I long to hear you idolize Shakespeare & yr father unimmortalize him.
- 1972, Edward Meyerstein, A Life of Thomas Chatterton, page 145:
- “Here,” writes A Hunter of Bristolian Oddities, “you may see a surgeon, by the inspiration of vanity, metamorphosed into a wooden antiquarian and writer of epitaphs, which would unimmortalize the poetical pen of Stephen Duck.”