artifactualize

verb

artifactualize

verb

Etymology From artifactual + -ize.

1

To convert into an artifact.

  • In Evelina, memory produces matriarchal resemblance; other Gothic novels artifactualize it in portraits. A father in The Orphan of the Rhine wears the miniature portrait of his dead wife, turning to it as confessional and icon […]2012, Kamilla Elliott, Portraiture and British Gothic Fiction, page 134:

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