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dehumanize, v.|diːˈhjuːmənaɪz|
[de- II. 1 + human, humanize.]
trans. To deprive of human character or attributes.
1818Moore Diary 4 Dec., Turner's face was a good deal de-humanised. 1889Pall Mall G. 26 Nov. 1/2 Our great towns de-humanize our children.
Hence deˈhumanized ppl. a.; deˈhumanizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also dehumaniˈzation.
1844N. Brit. Rev. II. 109 These almost de-humanized creatures. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics iv. ii. note, The mystics..representing regeneration almost as a process of dehumanization. 1857J. Pulsford Quiet Hours 156 It would seem as though the world's method of Education were dehumanizing. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xxii. (1891) 325 Centuries of de-humanizing celibacy. 1882F. Harrison Choice Bks. (1886) 446 To rehumanise the dehumanised members of society. 1889G. Gissing Nether World III. i. 19 The last step in that process of dehumanisation which threatens idealists of his type. |