Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To leave one's country; go into exile; exile or expatriate one's self.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To withdraw, or cause to withdraw, from one's country; to banish.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete To
withdraw , or cause to withdraw, from one'scountry ; tobanish .
Etymologies
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Latin de- + patria one's country.
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Examples
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He must not only declass, he must depatriate himself, for he would not have the means of living even much more economically than he now lived in New York, if he did what a sense of honor, of just responsibility urged him to do with regard to St. John.
Questionable Shapes William Dean Howells 1878
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