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  • verb Alternative spelling of decentre.

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Examples

  • It would be better, "he added," if more of us -- college students included -- learned how to speak a decenter English.

    Bertram Cope's Year Henry Blake Fuller 1893

  • He can laugh pungently enough at the style of oratory prevailing in the courts -- nilne pudet capiti non posse pericula cano pellere, quin tepidum hoc optes audire 'decenter'.

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Can an individual wishing others "Happy Holidays" in December amount to that individual's intent to decenter Christmas and Christianity?

    Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011

  • An attempt to decenter Christian hegemony in terminology related to the marking of time is replacing BC with BCE (Before the Common Era) and AD with CE (Common Era), although the renaming does nothing to end the marking of time before and after a "common" (Christian) era.

    Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011

  • An attempt to decenter Christian hegemony in terminology related to the marking of time is replacing BC with BCE (Before the Common Era) and AD with CE (Common Era), although the renaming does nothing to end the marking of time before and after a "common" (Christian) era.

    Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011

  • Can an individual wishing others "Happy Holidays" in December amount to that individual's intent to decenter Christmas and Christianity?

    Warren J. Blumenfeld: Challenging The Christian Month Of December Warren J. Blumenfeld 2011

  • Here are some ideas for choosing volunteer work that will help your child decenter:

    The Blessing of a B Minus Ph.D. Wendy Mogel 2010

  • Because we read this diary in installments, like Anne, our assessment of his plot undergoes its own shocks: we may well wish to write him off as a stock character, the typical misguided liberal in a postcolonial novel--an urge supported by David's unreliable narrative voice--but his willingness to admit wrongdoing and decenter himself calls our responses into question.

    The Voyage Home 2009

  • If we were to decenter the culture that anchored this meaning what would the language look like and how would we teach it?

    “Who CARES what English people have for breakfast?” My contribution to the culture debate… « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009

  • Because we read this diary in installments, like Anne, our assessment of his plot undergoes its own shocks: we may well wish to write him off as a stock character, the typical misguided liberal in a postcolonial novel--an urge supported by David's unreliable narrative voice--but his willingness to admit wrongdoing and decenter himself calls our responses into question.

    The Little Professor: 2009

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