English Explanatory Dictionary

Newmanize

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation.

Word forms

Newmanize Newmanizes Newmanizing Newmanized

Etymology

Coined as Newman + -ize by Matthew Arnold in a lecture at Oxford on November 30, 1861 (published in 1862 as On Translating Homer: Last Words) in which he criticized a translation by Francis William Newman.

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on N Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary