dehistoricize
English edit
Etymology edit
de- + historicize
Verb edit
dehistoricize (third-person singular simple present dehistoricizes, present participle dehistoricizing, simple past and past participle dehistoricized)
- (transitive) To separate or remove from history; to deprive of historical context.
- 2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
- Because the stunts disassociate these effects from their usual context, Jackass mimics state violence only to dehistoricize and depoliticize it.