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de-ˈethicize, v. [de- II. 1.] trans. To deprive of its ethical character; to separate from ethics. Hence de-ˈethicized ppl. a., de-ˈethicizing vbl. n., de-ethiciˈzation.
1887Boyd Carpenter Perm. Elem. Relig. v. §2 (1891) 188 Religionism is the shadow of religion..its effect is to de-ethicize religion. 1890W. S. Lilly Right & Wrong, The newspaper press..has done more than any thing else to de-ethicise public life. 1890Guardian 30 Apr. 711/3 Suspicion of that demoralising (or de-ethicising) tendency. 1893Fairbairn Christ in Mod. Theol. 405 The invariable tendency in Metaphysics is to the de-ethicization of deity. |