derationalize

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Definition of derationalize

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (transitive)To make irrational.
    “And, inasmuch as the soul is influenced, to an indefinite degree, by the body, atavism seems to derationalize the Christian theory of morality.”
    “Thus, by the self-subversive logic of evolution in legal ideas, we derationalize procedure the better to vindicate the rationalization of substantive law.”
    “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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From de- + rational + -ize.

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