pronominalize

English

Etymology

pronominal +‎ -ize

Verb

pronominalize (third-person singular simple present pronominalizes, present participle pronominalizing, simple past and past participle pronominalized)

  1. (transitive) To give the effect of a pronoun to.
    to pronominalize the substantives "person", "people", etc.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for pronominalize in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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