Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of memorializing or creating a memorial
WordNet 3.0
- n. a ceremony to honor the memory of someone or something
Etymologies
- memorialize + -ation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Segev places Wiesenthal's life within a context almost unthinkable to Americans under 50 today, for whom Holocaust memorialization is a given.”
“Mr. Libeskind said he intended it as "more than a helpless kind of memorialization of the past" and a clarion call for a better future.”
“Conflict memorialization reminds us of the horrors of the past to honor sacrifice, duty, and nationalistic ideology.”
“My first rebuttal to the Eisenhower statment about him being the only recent president without US Military deaths on his recors is one that ties in with your memorialization article: The Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C. Anyone who has seen the wall knows that it lists all the US military casualties from that conflict by year.”
“With memorialization of conflict comes a closure of sorts, which lends itself to the healing process of old wounds … but there are scars that still remain.”
“Still, by devising a novel about the art of memorialization, he has crafted a poignantly human monument to our history.”
“To be particular, an objection to a curricular reference to the “Big Bang” or to “evolution” is not to be evaluated the same way one might evaluate an objection to the permanent memorialization of your educational accomplishments.”
“Much of literature is memorialization—a way we have of assuaging our homesickness.”
The Huffington Post: Louise McCready: Joyce Carol Oates on A Widow's Story
“And that, instead of a public memorialization of one of the greatest fighters of all time, it boasts a statue of a fictional fighter, one Rocky Balboa, as conceived and played by Sylvester Stallone.”
“But many Israelis considered Wiesenthal a publicity hound who took credit for bringing Eichmann to justice that should have gone to the government - even though Yad Vashem, in charge of Israel's Holocaust memorialization, congratulated him on his "brilliant achievement.”
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Seven-syllable English Words
A list of English words containing seven syllables, beginning, somewhat ironically, with inapplicability, since a fair number of these words one would never use.
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