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Definition of Dehumanizes
1. dehumanize [v] - See also: dehumanize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehumanizes
Literary usage of Dehumanizes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The North American Review by Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1891)
"... his consequent disposition to drift with the stream of things rather than to
guide their course—this is what dehumanizes a man, and makes him a loafer. ..."
2. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1916)
"Given these endowments, man dehumanizes himself if he does not use them to
forestall situations that would make hunger press so severely on him as to lead ..."
3. Dramatic Opinions and Essays, with an Apology: With an Apology by Bernard Shaw (1907)
"Of course, intoning is easy —as easy as holding down one key of an accordion and
keeping up a mellifluous smile all the time; but it dehumanizes speech, ..."
4. The Advocate of Peace by American Peace Society (1902)
"... they will discover that among the most dangerous foes of their movement is
that subtle vice of gambling which dehumanizes individual nations as well as ..."
5. The Dawn of Italian Independence: Italy from the Congress of Vienna, 1814 by William Roscoe Thayer (1893)
"And, as always happens when a calamity falls upon and dehumanizes a people, many
gave themselves up to desperate orgies, to drunkenness and debauch, ..."
6. A Defence of Virginia: And Through Her, of the South, in Recent and Pending by Robert Lewis Dabney (1867)
"... it is self-evident, that a system which dehumanizes a human being, and makes
his very person like a brute's body, the property of another creature ..."
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