Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To destroy individuality.
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- verb transitive To strip of
individuality .
Etymologies
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de- + individualize
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Examples
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In the regime's attempt to "deindividualize" the citizen, sexuality was suppressed -- only to explode in primitive and violent forms.
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What Africans need, and what all races need, is not what will denationalize or deindividualize them, not what will stamp them out of existence, but what will show that God has a purpose in creating race varieties.
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