Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To lower in class or status.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To remove from one's or its class.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To lower one's
class or socialstanding
Etymologies
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Examples
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Might apply to LIbby, exec selec declass and unwritten auth notwithstanding.
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The word "decurtate" - means to cut short but in English lang "curtate" itself means "to cut short" and "de" is a pref. to make the following words as opposite or to make it degrade/declass.
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He must not only declass, he must depatriate himself, for he would not have the means of living even much more economically than he now lived in New York, if he did what a sense of honor, of just responsibility urged him to do with regard to St. John.
Questionable Shapes William Dean Howells 1878
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What service, indeed, would it be to Mary to declass her?
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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It’s fascinating stuff, even the declass material.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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It’s fascinating stuff, even the declass material.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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It’s fascinating stuff, even the declass material.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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It’s fascinating stuff, even the declass material.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Assassination, Self-Defense, and the Koh Speech 2010
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