Word Meanings - LITERALIZATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of literalizing; reduction to a literal meaning.

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• LITERALNESS
  The quality or state of being literal; literal import.
• LITERALIST
  One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreter according to the letter.
• LITERALLY
  1. According to the primary and natural import of words; not figuratively; as, a man and his wife can not be literally one flesh. 2. With close adherence to words; word by word. So wild and ungovernable a poet can not be translated literally.
• LITERALISM
  The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully, without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization. (more info) 1. That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.
• LITERAL
  1. According to the letter or verbal expression; real; not figurative or metaphorical; as, the literal meaning of a phrase. It hath but one simple literal sense whose light the owls can not abide. Tyndale 2. Following the letter or exact words;
• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• LITERALIZER
  A literalist.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• LITERALITY
  The state or quality of being literal. Sir T. Browne.
• MEANLY
  Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
• MEAN-SPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• MEANDRINA
  A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
• MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
  The intervening time; as, in the meantime .
• REDUCTION
  The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6. and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. The correction of observations for known errors of instruments, etc. The preparation of the facts and measurements
• MEANNESS
  1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
• LITERALIZE
  To make literal; to interpret or put in practice according to the strict meaning of the words; -- opposed to spiritualize; as, to literalize Scripture.
• MEANT
  of Mean.
• MEANDRIAN
  Winding; having many turns.
• MEANING
  1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent. If there be any good meaning towards you. Shak. 2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• BILITERALISM
  The property or state of being biliteral.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• ILLITERAL
  Not literal. B. Dawson.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• UNILITERAL
  Consisting of one letter only; as, a uniliteral word or sign.
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• TRILITERALISM
  See TRILITERALITY
• QUADRILITERAL
  Consisting of four letters.
• UNMEANT
  Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.
• DEMEANANCE
  Demeanor. Skelton.
• TRILITERAL
  Consisting of three letters; trigrammic; as, a triliteral root or word. -- n.
• FOREMEANT
  Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser.