"demodernize" meaning in All languages combined

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  "etymology_text": "From de- + modernize.",
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          "ref": "1916, The Wood-worker, page 37:",
          "text": "He actually began to demodernize this splendid mill and install the ancient features of the old one he had left, and would have done it had not the authorities stopped him. He had his coat off and sleeves rolled up, ...",
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          "ref": "1999, Doris Sommer, The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 49:",
          "text": "My argument implies the legacies of the early modern and colonial periods (modernity and coloniality) and joins forces with efforts to demodernize and decolonize scholarship as well as discourse in the public sphere that emerged ...",
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        },
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          "ref": "2011, Gary Bridge, Sophie Watson, The New Blackwell Companion to the City, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:",
          "text": "The US and Israeli forces, for example, have long worked systematically to “demodernize” entire urban societies through the destruction of the life-support and infrastructure systems of Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iraq since 1991 ...",
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