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disnature en · VERB

Etymology

From dis- + nature.

Meanings

1. (transitive) Synonym of denature (“take away a natural characteristic or inherent property of”).
   • It is not the soul's nature to leave the body; rather, the body (disnatured by the Fall) deserts the soul. 1943, C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man:
   • Naturally, no one has disnatured all of nature before. Destroying and remaking all of existence is unique, unparalleled. 2007, John C. Wright, Titans of Chaos, page 307:
   • The truth has been disnatured by its legal setting: Caleb's appeal to the conscience is not an instrument of ' true ' justice but, in spite of all he can do to prevent it, an act of revenge against the institution of aristocracy . 2005, Gregory Dart, Rousseau, Robespierre and English Romanticism, page 98:

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denature