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English
Etymology
de- + naturalize
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /diːˈnæt(jə)ɹəlaɪz/, /diːˈnætʃəɹəlaɪz/
Verb
denaturalize (third-person singular simple present denaturalizes, present participle denaturalizing, simple past and past participle denaturalized)
- (transitive) To revoke or deny the citizenship of.
After the regime fell, the leader was executed and the prinicipal party members were denaturalized and deported.
- (transitive) 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.
- (transitive) To cease to treat as natural.
2018, Lee Quinby, Millennial Seduction: A Skeptic Confronts Apocalyptic Culture, page 139:One question these scenes pose for cultural theory is whether such depictions denaturalize rape and denormalize masculinist pleasure in viewing sexual violence.
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