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Definition of Dehumanise

1. Verb. Deprive of human qualities. "Life in poverty has dehumanized them"

Definition of Dehumanise

1. Verb. (British) (alternative form of dehumanize) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehumanise

Literary usage of Dehumanise

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Old Testament and the New Scholarship by John Punnett Peters (1902)
"dehumanise Jesus of Nazareth, and you profane His Divinity. dehumanise the Bible, which tells about Him, and you profane its divinity. ..."

2. The Humane Review (1904)
"How dearly he would have loved to trim and tidy and whitewash and dehumanise Buchanan, as he tried to dehumanise Shelley, by eliminating from his portrait ..."

3. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1904)
"Monet's aim is to dehumanise his art, to attenuate life into unintelligent sensation. His work, like Whistler's, is better than his theories. ..."

4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1882)
"The whole aspect of the place is that of an experiment to degrade and dehumanise the inhabitants. The only proof of the existence of an owner is found in ..."

5. Studies in Humanism by Ferdinand Canning Scott Schiller (1907)
"We must abandon the attempt to dehumanise knowledge, to attribute to it an ' independence ' of human purposes, an ' absoluteness' which divorces it from ..."

6. Faith and Its Psychology by William Ralph Inge (1910)
"As a matter of experience, this way of thinking about Christ does not dehumanise Him into a cosmic principle. Rather, we find with Robert Browning, ..."

7. Report of the Annual Meeting (1905)
"In this sense, at all events, you must not dehumanise him. The most eminent psychologists, the critics tell иь, are beginning to recognise the danger, ..."

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