unhumanize

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ humanize.

Verb

unhumanize (third-person singular simple present unhumanizes, present participle unhumanizing, simple past and past participle unhumanized)

  1. (transitive) To strip of humanity; to dehumanize.
    • 1836, American Anti-Slavery Society, The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4:
      Further, in making him a slave, he does not merely unhumanize one individual, but UNIVERSAL MAN. He destroys the foundations.
    • 1908, John Ruskin, Selections From the Works of John Ruskin:
      If you will have that precision out of them, and make their fingers measure degrees like cog-wheels, and their arms strike curves like compasses, you must unhumanize them.