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Denaturalize
De-nat′u-ral-ize
(?; 135)
, Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Denaturalized
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Denaturalizing
.] [Cf. F.
dénaturaliser
.] 1.
To render unnatural; to alienate from nature.
2.
To renounce the natural rights and duties of; to deprive of citizenship; to denationalize.
[R.]
They also claimed the privilege, when aggrieved, of
denaturalizing
themselves, or, in other words, of publicly renouncing their allegiance to their sovereign, and of enlisting under the banners of his enemy. Prescott.
Definition 2024
denaturalize
denaturalize
English
Alternative forms
- denaturalise (UK)
Verb
denaturalize (third-person singular simple present denaturalizes, present participle denaturalizing, simple past and past participle denaturalized)
- To revoke or deny citizenship.
- After the regime fell the leader was executed and the priniciple party members were denaturalized and deported.
- To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
- Henchard was, by original make, the last man to act stealthily, for good or for evil. But the solicitus timor of his love — the dependence upon Elizabeth's love into which he had declined (or, in another sense, to which he had advanced) — denaturalized him.
- 1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge
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See also
- expatriate (1)