Definition of Declasses

1. declass [v] - See also: declass

Lexicographical Neighbors of Declasses

declare oneself
declare war
declared
declaredly
declaredness
declarement
declarements
declarer
declarers
declares
declareth
declaring
declaw
declawed
declawing
declaws
declension
declensional
declensionism

Literary usage of Declasses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Brieux and Contemporary French Society by William H. Scheifley (1917)
"In the same vein, Au- gustin Filon speaks of "ces off 'reuses crispations de c(Rur qui font, en France, une torture de I ' existence des declasses. ..."

2. Paris and the Social Revolution: A Study of the Revolutionary Elements in by Alvan Francis Sanborn (1905)
"These declasses must find places, or they will have revenge; ... What was the Commune, indeed, but the joint self-assertion of the declasses ? ..."

3. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of by Robert Michels (1915)
"... in a spasm of unjustified anger, as declasses. This term, used in an insulting sense, presents the Italian socialists in a false light. ..."

4. Rome in Ireland by Michael John Fitzgerald McCarthy (1904)
"... Catholic young men thus educated by the priests, that "nine-tenths of them are lost, and that they are now going to swell the ranks of the declasses, ..."

5. My Life and Work by Henry Ford, Samuel Crowther (1922)
"It is a profession. and must have recognized professional ethics, to violate which declasses a man. Business needs more of the professional spirit. ..."

6. Criminality and Economic Conditions by Willem Adriaan Bonger (1916)
"Those who are irregular become easily the 'declasses.' Nothing is more contagious than disorder."2 Hence, then, comes the importance for criminality of ..."

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