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Definition of Deracinated
1. deracinate [v] - See also: deracinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deracinated
Literary usage of Deracinated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Contemporary Literature by Stuart Pratt Sherman (1917)
"There the deracinated Irishman assumed the language and the pleasures of the
Parisian without assuming his responsibilities, lived in bachelor apartments ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"... that they should be placed on permanent record before all our delightful old
dialect usages »re quite deracinated by the progress of modem education. ..."
3. Contemporary American Novelists, 1900-1920 by Carl van Doren (1922)
"Cynical, deracinated, he turned from his speculative doubts to the positive
realities of sense, ..."
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