See nonsensify on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1872, A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, Printed for private collection, \"St. Peter's Complaint,\" p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2)",
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"ref": "1872, A. B. Grossart, ed., The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, Printed for private collection, \"St. Peter's Complaint,\" p. 51 (note for stanza 65, line 2)",
"text": "Turnbull again obscures and nonsensifies by misprinting \"works\" for \"words.\""
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"text": "The artist, generalizing from the facts of experience, combines concrete symbols absurdly so as to nonsensify pragmatic reality.",
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"text": "But Swift will have none of this. He nonsensifies Collins.",
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"ref": "2002, Alun Rees, \"Golf: Maruyama outshone,\" Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), 27 Jul.",
"text": "The Dutchman, taking the 16th stage of the Tour de France after a solo effort which nonsensified all known laws of human endurance, smiled."
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