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Definition of Declass
1. v. t. To remove from a class; to separate or degrade from one's class.
Definition of Declass
1. Verb. To lower one's class or social standing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Declass
1. to lower in status [v -ED, -ING, -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Declass
Literary usage of Declass
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"... so that each stands by himself in the war of all against all, and you set
loose whatever evil instincts have their roots in us; 'declass' man and you ..."
2. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America; Monograph of an Immigrant Group by William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki (1918)
"Of course all kinds of pauperism and vice declass a man definitely, put him
outside of both the old and the new hierarchy. Beggars, tramps, criminals ..."
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