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pejoration
pejoration (piːdʒəˈreɪʃən) [ad. med.L. pējōrātiōn-em, n. of action from pējōrāre: see prec.] a. A making or becoming worse, a worsening, deterioration; depreciation (of property).1658 Phillips, Pejoration, a making worse. 1659 Gauden Tears of Ch. i. xiv. 131 Which pejorations, as to the piety, peace... Oxford English Dictionary
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Pejorative
Pejoration and melioration In historical linguistics, the process of an inoffensive word becoming pejorative is a form of semantic drift known as pejoration as in the successive pejoration of the terms bog-house, privy-house, latrine, water closet, toilet, bathroom and restroom (US English). wikipedia.org
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Amelioration
cycle Land improvement, alternatively called amelioration) The process by which the pejorative associations of a word are swept away; see Pejorative#Pejoration wikipedia.org
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amelioration
amelioration (əˌmiːlɪəˈreɪʃən) [a. mod.Fr. amélioration, or analogously formed on ameliorate. Quot. 1659 ought perh. to read ‘a melioration.’] 1. The action of making better; or the condition of being made better; improvement.1659 Morrice in Burton Diary (1828) IV. 355 The fruit receives amelioratio... Oxford English Dictionary
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barefaced
barefaced, a. (ˈbɛəfeɪst) (in use sometimes approaching an adv.; cf. barefoot, -ed). 1. With the face uncovered: hence a. with no hair on the face, beardless, whiskerless, also fig.; b. without mask or vizard.1590 Shakes. Mids. N. i. ii. 100 Some of your French Crownes haue no haire at all, and then... Oxford English Dictionary
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Strigoi
The "-oi" suffix notably converts feminine terms to the masculine gender as well as often investing it with a complex mixture of augmentation and pejoration wikipedia.org
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Dysphemism
Move from euphemism to dysphemism The process of pejoration leads to words that were once considered euphemisms to now be considered dysphemisms. wikipedia.org
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Redskin
The word later underwent a process of pejoration, by which it gained a negative connotation. Pejoration The pejoration of the term redskin arguably begins as soon as its introduction in the early 19th century. wikipedia.org
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Etymological fallacy
Such changes can include a narrowing or widening of scope or a change of connotation (amelioration or pejoration). wikipedia.org
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Language change
Basic types of semantic change include: pejoration, in which a term's connotations become more negative amelioration, in which a term's connotations Thus 'villain' has undergone pejoration. wikipedia.org
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Swedish profanity
Etymologically, kåt is an example of pejoration, as the Icelandic cognate kátur simply means "glad". wikipedia.org
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Semantic change
Blank considered it problematic to include amelioration and pejoration of meaning (as in Ullman) as well as strengthening and weakening of meaning (as Other related processes include pejoration and amelioration. wikipedia.org
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Revivalistics
semantic secularization involving ideological “lexical engineering”, as exemplified by deliberate, subversive processes of extreme semantic shifting, pejoration wikipedia.org
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Djákninn á Myrká
The Dead Bridegroom Carries Off His Bride: Pejoration and Adjacency Pairs in ATU 365". wikipedia.org
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Moroi
The "-oi" suffix notably converts feminine terms to the masculine gender as well as often investing it with a complex mixture of augmentation and pejoration wikipedia.org
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