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/diːˈhjuːmənaɪz/
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diːˈhjuːmənaɪz
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Verb
To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
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In its consistently logical form Quietism makes communion between man and God an impossibility by annulling the distinction between them, ultimately reducing God to a vague and empty abstraction, and dehumanizing man.
Yet we are dismayed by the failures and forces that dehumanize and defeat the finest dreams and plans of this generation.
To what extent can we stop making the culture of the Other so dehumanized and Satanized as to make the Other fit to be genocidable?
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And, in this country, the traditional, ingrained way to dehumanize people, to make both their pain and their individuality irrelevant, is to rely on their race.
A Melbourne woman says she feels “dehumanised” after being filmed without consent for a “random act of kindness” TikTok that went viral.
From this sort of work, we learn to have a contempt for sadism, for anything that dehumanizes, and to have compassion for the everyday people who pay the price for the designs of proud and evil men.
Verb
deprive of human qualities
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Life in poverty has dehumanized them
make mechanical or routine
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