derationalize
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[edit]derationalize (third-person singular simple present derationalizes, present participle derationalizing, simple past and past participle derationalized)
- (transitive) To make irrational.
- 1880, The Church Quarterly Review - Volume 9, page 310:
- And, inasmuch as the soul is influenced, to an indefinite degree, by the body, atavism seems to derationalize the Christian theory of morality.
- 1997, Richard Rawlings, Law, Society, and Economy: Centenary Essays for the London School of Economics and Political Science 1895-1995, →ISBN:
- Thus, by the self-subversive logic of evolution in legal ideas, we derationalize procedure the better to vindicate the rationalization of substantive law.
- 2008, Edward W. Said, Music at the Limits, →ISBN, page 277:
- This achieves the purpose of expanding the framework inside which performers are compelled to work, and also — as the intellectual must do — it elaborates an alternative argument to the prevailing conventions that so deaden and dehumanize and derationalize the human spirit.
- 2011, James Penner, Pinks, Pansies, and Punks, →ISBN:
- Thus far, I have been arguing that Ginsberg's poetry represents an attempt to demasculinize and derationalize American poetry; however, Ginsberg's poetic project also has an aggressively masculine side as well.