Newmanize

Meaning

Verb

• To translate in a manner that makes use of archaisms and which tends to closely follow the original rather than modernize the language in the translation.

Origin

• Coined as Newman + -ize by Matthew Arnold in a lecture at Oxford on November 30, 1861 (published in 1862 as On Translating Homer: Last Words) in which he criticized a translation by Francis William Newman.