disnaturalize

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ naturalize.

Verb

disnaturalize (third-person singular simple present disnaturalizes, present participle disnaturalizing, simple past and past participle disnaturalized)

  1. (transitive) To make alien; to deprive of the privileges of birth.
    • 1704, John Locke, The Whole History of Navigation from Its Original to this Time:
      [] having served his prince well both in Afric and India, and being ill rewarded, renounced his country , disnaturalizing himself as the custom then was

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