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unˈhumanize, v.
[un-2 6 c.]
1. trans. To deprive of human virtues; to render inhuman or callous.
1752Young Brothers iii. i, Thy heart, how dead to every call of nature! Unson'd! unbrother'd! nay, unhumaniz'd! 1755Man No. 24. 3 A life consisting entirely of..sensual delights, unhumanises the soul. 1807J. Barlow Columb. vi. 398 How long, deluding phantom, wilt thou blind, Mislead, debase, unhumanize mankind? 1852Hawthorne Blithedale Rom. xviii, That cold tendency..appeared to have gone far towards unhumanizing my heart. 1860I. Taylor Spir. Hebrew Poetry (1873) 124 The work of slaughter did not unhumanize those who effected it.
2. To deprive of human qualities.
1800Monthly Mag. X. 319 By endeavouring to sublimate his Jesus into a Jehovah, he unhumanizes the most lovely of characters.
Hence unˈhumanized ppl. a.
c1780Porteus Serm. (1799) II. vi. 140 Purity is ridiculed and set at nought, as a sour, unsocial, unhumanized virtue. 1805Foster Ess. (1806) I. 207 The firmness..is accompanied..in a mere man of the world, with an unhumanized repulsive hardness. 1815Kirby & Sp. Entomol. xiv. (1816) I. 434 The most ignorant and unhumanized of their race. |