unhumanizev.
1. transitive. To deprive of human virtues; to render inhuman or callous.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [verb (transitive)]
savage1611
unmanner1621
unhuman1648
unhumanize1752
savagize1794
inhumanize1871
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > deprive of human qualities
unhuman1648
unhumanize1752
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > treat cruelly [verb (transitive)] > render cruel
savage1611
unhuman1648
encruelize1654
unhumanize1752
inhumanize1871
1752 E. Young Brothers iii. i Thy heart, how dead to every call of nature! Unson'd! unbrother'd! nay, unhumaniz'd!
1755 Man No. 24. 3 A life consisting entirely of..sensual delights, unhumanises the soul.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vi. 227 How long, deluding phantom, wilt thou blind, Mislead, debase, unhumanize mankind?
1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xviii. 182 That cold tendency..appeared to have gone far towards unhumanizing my heart.
1860 I. Taylor Spirit Hebr. Poetry (1873) 124 The work of slaughter did not unhumanize those who effected it.
2. To deprive of human qualities.
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the world > people > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of human qualities
unhumanize1800
1800 Monthly Mag. 10 319 By endeavouring to sublimate his Jesus into a Jehovah, he unhumanizes the most lovely of characters.
Derivatives
unˈhumanized adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] > made
brutified1595
brutizeda1711
unhumanized1794
brutalized1803
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > brutalized
bestialized1751
imbruted1765
unhumanized1794
the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > [adjective] > inhumanly > rendered
brutizeda1711
unhumanized1794
brutalized1803
1794 B. Porteus Serm. Several Subj. II. vi. 140 Purity is ridiculed and set at nought, as a sour, unsocial, unhumanized virtue.
1805 J. Foster Ess. (1806) I. 207 The firmness..is accompanied..in a mere man of the world, with an unhumanized repulsive hardness.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. xiv. 434 The most ignorant and unhumanized of their race.
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