Deracinated
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of deracinate form-of, participle, past
- 1 Uprooted; having lost one's homeland.
"Lucha Corpi's novel explores the ambiguities of social dissent in a liberal democracy by putting into motion a murder mystery where all the major characters are Mexican Americans, some more deracinated than others, some more powerful than others, and some darker than others."
- 2 Lacking cultural context; free from traditions.
"Yet, resorting to Derrida now, one may wonder whether the acceleration and excess of meaning generated by such as the realm of the "virtual" leaves us any more deracinated than we were before with a comparative lack of meaning – leaves us any less unable “to objectivize [the archive] with no remainder" – any less unable to transcend the partiality of any afformed determinacy (1998: 16-18, 68)."
Example
More examples"Tom had been uprooted from his village, deracinated from his people and all that he knew, and thrown into these terrifying outer wilds."
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