ignorize

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Verb

ignorize (third-person singular simple present ignorizes, present participle ignorizing, simple past and past participle ignorized)

  1. (nonce word) To promote ignorance; to withhold from education.
    • 1964, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson, The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson:
      'Tis a great part of wellbeing to ignorize a good deal of your fellowman's history & not count his warts nor expect the hour when he shall wash his teeth.
    • 2008, Julián Segura Camacho, Higher Education as Ignorance: The Contempt of Mexicans in the American Educational System:
      But no, those PhD Chicanos have bought the Hispanic Latino imposition led by both the federal government but also daily presses such as the Los Angeles Times (beautiful Spanglish) to ignorize the reader into killing the Mexican American/Chicano identity and succumb to their impose term of Latino.