Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of the power of reason or of reasoning; convert from a rational into an irrational being.
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Examples
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The continuing effort of the mutant breed of Marxists has been to derationalize Marx and turn Nietzsche into a leftist.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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The continuing effort of the mutant breed of Marxists has been to derationalize Marx and turn Nietzsche into a leftist.
THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND Allan Bloom 2003
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He never could derationalize his emotions, cut himself free; and while he felt just as intensely as she did, he had to carry the whole superstructure of himself along on those tempestuous voyages.
Mary Wollaston Henry Kitchell Webster 1903
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