déracinéadj.
/deɪˈrasɪneɪ/, U.S. /deɪˌræsɪˈneɪ/ ‘Uprooted’ from one's (national or social) environment. Also as n.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > exile or state of > [adjective]
flemedc1275
fugitivec1384
exileda1398
relegatec1425
banished1578
self-exiled1596
relegated1611
deporteda1632
exulant1636
ejected1649
exterminated1694
expatriated1768
expatriate1812
dépaysé1909
déraciné1921
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > exile > [noun]
wretchc888
flemeOE
outflemec1300
exilec1330
flemingc1374
exulatec1470
relegate?c1550
exul1573
fugitivea1616
deportee1895
dépaysé1909
déraciné1921
1921 19th Cent. & After May 770 The unseen Jew déraciné provides munitions of argument for the revolutionary group.
1926 J. Buchan Dancing Floor i. vi She rides well, but her manners are atrocious. Lord, how I dislike these déracinés!
1931 in W. Rose Outl. Mod. Knowl. 751 To be delocalised is not be be déraciné.
1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin iii. iv I'm quite déraciné, as they say in Bloomsbury.
1952 D. Davie Purity of Diction in Eng. Verse ii. 24 The typical déracinée, Fanny Price.
1964 R. Church Voy. Home v. 71 The dreadful self-consciousness of so many déraciné Americans, aping the hyper-civilized European decadents.
1967 Listener 22 June 832/1 Our ‘dynamic’ epoch has..produced a succession of déracinés ranging from Bartók to Stravinsky.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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