decrassifyv.
rare.
transitive. To divest of what is crass, gross, or material.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > improvement > [verb (transitive)] > purify or refine
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1855 R. Browning Bishop Blougram in Wks. IV. 267 I hear you recommend, I might at least Eliminate, decrassify my faith.
1885 W. C. Coupland Spirit Goethe's Faust vi. 202 Our attempt to decrassify this symbol, to see in it the wonderful power of the creative human brain.
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