metaphorization

And I could add further that, actually, it's a close run thing: there's a great deal in this novel that is precisely poetic, hauntingly and transportingly to the process of metaphorization.

Kit Whitfield, In Great Waters (2009) Adam Roberts 2010

And I could add further that, actually, it's a close run thing: there's a great deal in this novel that is precisely poetic, hauntingly and transportingly to the process of metaphorization.

Archive 2010-04-01 Adam Roberts 2010

For the purposes of this essay, however, I'd like to subordinate the Burkean template of terror to another, larger pattern of Romantic metaphorization in which Burke's therapeutic rather than aesthetic agenda will be foregrounded.

Re-collecting Spontaneous Overflows 1998

But what if what is happening here is not just the instance of an invisible metaphor, but an instance of invisible metaphorization, a retrospective projection of rationality upon a document that carries a rather damning and to-be-explained term for an offense that, as Dumonceaux himself concedes, might have once occurred in a more superstitious era.

Limited, Inc. 2010