devulgarization

English

Alternative forms

• devulgarisation

Etymology

devulgarize +‎ -ation. Attested since the 20th century.

Noun

devulgarization (uncountable)

1. To process of devulgarizing something.
   • 1920, Robert Ranpulph Marett, Psychology and Folk-lore, page 99:

     It may be figured as a vertical process, one of rise or fall; fall of value or vulgarization being on the whole more in evidence in the special field of folk-lore than rise of value or devulgarization.