Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cause to cease to be human; deprive or divest of the nature or characteristics of human beings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render inhuman or barbarous.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To strip of
humanity ; todehumanize .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them ...
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Rebels And Messiahs: 10 Spiritual Ancestors For Occupy Wall Street RJ 2011
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Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize _one_ individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize _one_ individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society
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To do so would, but unchristianize the deep grief which bereavement awakens, and which true piety sanctifies; it would unhumanize the very constitution of home itself.
The Christian Home Samuel Philips
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If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859
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I'll stand by you, old man, in the ark or in the castle, the canoe or the woods, but I'll not unhumanize my natur 'by falling into ways that God intended for another race.
The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident Shiva
The Greenbelt 2009
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