Definition of "literalizing" [literalizing]

• Present participle of literalize. (verb)

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• "Morrison’s technique might be characterized as literalizing stock language."
• "I hadn't been aware of that incident, and I was immediately attracted by the idea of juxtaposing poetic insight and political insight; literalizing and exploring Shelley's idea that poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world (Frost repeatedly joked through the years that he wanted to run for the Senate); asking what happens when poetry tries to speak to power."
• "Note 92: Carruthers, Book of Memory, 166: "The monastic custom of reading during meals is described in some texts as an explicit literalizing of the metaphor of consuming a book as one consumes food." back"