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Denaturalization
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The act or process of denaturalizing, of changing or destroying the quality (nature) of a thing. countable, uncountable
"In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture."
- 2 The involuntary removal of citizenship by a country countable, uncountable
"The Justice Department has long pursued denaturalization on the basis of fraud. A 2016 Homeland Security Department Inspector General report found that at least 858 people had been given US citizenship despite having been deported under a different identity, because their fingerprints had not been in the system."
Etymology
From de- + naturalization.
See also for "denaturalization"
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