单词 | deprogramme |
释义 | deprogrammev. Originally U.S. transitive. To release from apparent brainwashing (esp. by a religious cult) by the systematic reindoctrination of conventional values. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > instil ideas [verb (transitive)] > instil person with ideas > release from brainwashing deprogramme1973 1973 Newsweek 30 Aug. 52/3 His parents..tried to push him into a rented car and take him off to be ‘de-programed’. 1979 M. Tripp Cruel Victim i. 17 In America..a young member of the Hare Krishna sect brought a prosecution against a man who tried to deprogramme him. 1981 Times 1 Apr. 3/6 Some parents..told how they managed to..induce back their children, and ‘deprogramme’ them from the Moonie doctrine. Derivatives deˈprogrammer n. a person who carries out this process. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > inculcator > deprogrammer deprogrammer1973 1973 Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 21 Jan. 4/7 One 23-year-old woman [screamed]..at the de-programmers that they were devils. 1983 P. Kurth Anastasia (1985) iii. xiv. 418 A blustering, seemingly unbalanced former KGB agent who had defected to the West and, in the words of one CIA deprogrammer, ‘flipped his lid’. deˈprogramming n. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > instilling ideas > [noun] > inculcating > deprogramming deprogramming1973 1973 Sunday Advocate-News (Barbados) 21 Jan. 4/4 Many American parents..feel so strongly about the cults..that they are resorting to kidnapping and brainwashing—which they call deprogramming—to bring their children home. 1976 Guardian 13 Sept. 6/1 Deprogramming is defined as a process of constant argument and preaching which sometimes persuades a Moon Person to defect. In the United States, it has sometimes involved violence. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1989; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < v.1973 |
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