monstrification

English 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.