monstrification

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

monster +‎ -ification

Noun[edit]

monstrification (countable and uncountable, plural monstrifications)

  1. 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.
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