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Definition of Deracinating
1. deracinate [v] - See also: deracinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deracinating
Literary usage of Deracinating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Amateur Emigrant: The Siverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905)
"... mountains and deracinating pines! And yet water it was, and sea-water at that —
true Pacific billows, only somewhat rarefied, rolling in mid-air among ..."
2. Types of the Essay by Benjamin Alexander Heydrick (1921)
"... to the eye), with what a plunge of reverberating thunder would it have rolled
upon its course, disembowelling mountains and deracinating pines! ..."
3. History of Australia by George William Rusden (1897)
"By common consent the deracinating of Downing-street misrule, and sowing of the
seed of self- government in each colony, ..."
4. The War and Culture: A Reply to Professor Münsterberg by John Cowper Powys (1914)
"Culture is too personal, too full of local color, too dramatic, too organic and
spontaneous, to lend itself, with good results, to the deracinating process ..."
5. The Medico-chirurgical Review by James Johnson, Henry James Johnson (1823)
"The modern pitch- cap for deracinating the hair, still employed in most of the
hospitals and by regular practitioners, is little less barbarous, ..."
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