Crossword clues for demonize
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Demonize \De"mon*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demonized; p. pr. & vb. n. Demonizing.] [Cf. LL. daemonizare to be possessed by a demon, Gr. ?.]
To convert into a demon; to infuse the principles or fury of a demon into.
To control or possess by a demon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1821, "to make into a demon" (literally or figuratively), from Medieval Latin daemonizare, from Latin daemon (see demon). Greek daimonizesthai meant "to be possessed by a demon." Related: Demonized; demonizing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context American spelling English) To turn into a demon. 2 (context American spelling English) To describe or represent as evil or diabolic.
WordNet
v. make into a demon; "Power had demonized him" [syn: demonise]
Usage examples of "demonize".
Fundamentalist religiosity has become an integral part of the radicalization of the Right in the United States and of the tendency to demonize political opponents as traitors and enemies of God and America.
Augustine assimilates this ancient tradition, replaces gods by God, and demonizes the demons, arguing that they are, without exception, malign.
The system of slavery, maintained for over two hundred years at the South, had performed a most perverting, morally desolating, and we might say, demonizing work on the dominant race, which people bred under our free civilization can not at once understand, nor scarcely believe when it is declared unto them.
The power of the female and her ability to produce life was once very sacred, but it posed a threat to the rise of the predominantly male Church, and so the sacred feminine was demonized and called unclean.
Where once Huns and Reds were demonized, human qualities would be apotheosized.
Michi Urashima, the men of the future will say, was demonized by those too dull to see that he was the seed of the Afterman.
He was recognized universally as a gentleman and, while others of his generation had found themselves demonized by the new morality, Jack had prospered.
Instead, those demonstrators are demonized as "fundamentalists" and "radicals" who supposedly deserve such treatment.
Erewhon wasn't far behind, and for all their enthusiasm, the San Martinos were scarcely in the same league as Manticoran or Erewhonian machine politicians out to demonize their foes.
Erewhon wasn’t far behind, and for all their enthusiasm, the San Martinos were scarcely in the same league as Manticoran or Erewhonian machine politicians out to demonize their foes.
Two of the most potent social campaigns of the past half-century were the civil rights movement and the feminist movement, which demonized discrimination against blacks and women, respectively.
Another example of the way the white man demonizes people of color.
But it does remove the tendency to personalize politics, to demonize or valorize individuals when really, in this particular realm of social life, it is policy that matters.