Deglorify

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To remove glory from; to cause something to be less glorious; to dishonour.

    "One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories."

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"One way to minimize or mitigate the copycat effect is to deemphasize the perpetrator and deglorify the violence in real and fictional stories."

Etymology

From de- + glorify.

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