unhumanize

English

Etymology

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^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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.