dedemonize
English
Etymology
From de- + demonize.
Verb
dedemonize (third-person singular simple present dedemonizes, present participle dedemonizing, simple past and past participle dedemonized)
- To make undemonic; to normalize.
- 1990, Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae:
- My theory again: high comedy is always a defeat of the chthonian. The Bostonians is The Blithedale Romance dedaemonized.
- 2016, Ken Wharfe, Robert Jobson, Diana – Closely Guarded Secret:
- Tragically, by 1991 he was dying of AIDS, the disease that she had worked so hard to 'dedemonise' in the light of the public taboos against it.
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