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Webster 1913 Edition

Denationalize

De-na′tion-al-ize

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Denationalized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Denationalizing
.]
[Cf. F.
dénationaliser
.]
1.
To divest or deprive of national character or rights.
Bonaparte’s decree
denationalizes
, as he calls it, all ships that have touched at a British port.
Cobbett.
An expatriated,
denationalized
race.
G. Eliot.

Webster 1828 Edition

Denationalize

DENATIONALIZE

,
Verb.
T.
To divest of national character or rights, by transferrence to the service of another nation. A ship built and registered in the United States, is denationalized by being employed in the service of another nation and bearing its flag.

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