单词 | dementalizing |
释义 | dementalizingadj. Now rare. That deprives a person of the capacity for thought; that disturbs mental equilibrium or has a detrimental effect on the mind; (also) that disregards the mental quality or attributes of another person. ΚΠ 1830 R. C. Sands in M. R. Mitford Stories Amer. Life II. 315 The deteriorating and dementalising effects which Jacobinism, gunpowder, and the Encyclopædia had had upon the masses of intellect in that section of the globe. 1840 H. Mann Lect. Educ. 18 Fear is one of the most debasing and dementalizing of all the passions. 1870 Ann. Rep. School Comm. City of Boston 1869 64 Legislation should step in and say to these teachers..that the fear of punishment is dementalizing; that it induces no real virtue; that it paralyzes and bereaves the senses. 1919 Sci. Monthly May 431 The overwhelming fact..is the eager acceptance of such a devastating, demoralizing, dementalizing delusion by a supposedly enlightened people. 2009 Independent (Nexis) 17 Feb. 14 Sexualised images in the media..can dehumanise women by encouraging men to think of them in terms of objects to be acted upon, she said. ‘There is an avoidance-related dehumanisation or dementalising kind of response.’ This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1830 |
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