disnature

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English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ nature.

Verb

disnature (third-person singular simple present disnatures, present participle disnaturing, simple past and past participle disnatured)

  1. (transitive) Synonym of denature (take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of)
    • 1943, C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man:
      It is not the soul's nature to leave the body; rather, the body (disnatured by the Fall) deserts the soul.
    • 2005, Gregory Dart, Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism, page 98:
      The truth has been disnatured by its legal setting: Caleb's appeal to the conscience is not an instrument of ' true ' justice but, in spite of all he can do to prevent it, an act of revenge against the institution of aristocracy .
    • 2007, John C. Wright, Titans of Chaos, page 307:
      Naturally, no one has disnatured all of nature before. Destroying and remaking all of existence is unique, unparalleled.