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prettification|ˌprɪtɪfɪˈkeɪʃən| [f. prettify v.: see -fication.] The fact or process of making pretty; prettifying.
1909in Webster. 1920Times Lit. Suppl. 23 Sept. 617/1 Such work is..the counterfeit of romance. It gives us, not a celebration of life, but a prettification of it. 1930A. I. Nazaroff Tolstoy vi. 97 He is described very realistically, without the slightest trace of prettification or sugar-coating. 1966New Statesman 23 Dec. 935/2 The sanctification of emotional impotence. The prettification of stultified tragedy. 1969Daily Tel. 10 July 21/3 This [manner], together with some prettification of the action, deprived the play of the savagery that is surely there. 1978Listener 20 July 76/3 The writer, Georgina Masson..is up in arms over the prettification of the cemetery. |