unmodernize

English

Etymology

un- +‎ modernize

Verb

unmodernize (third-person singular simple present unmodernizes, present participle unmodernizing, simple past and past participle unmodernized)

1. (uncommon) To demodernize.
   • 1998, Douglas Mao, Solid Objects: Modernism and the Test of Production, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 146:

     Though the first in effect unmodernizes the modern while the second stresses the unmodernity of the past, both look away from the new world of production by way of denaturalizing contemporary conditions ...