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Meaning of derationalise | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Examples

“As a moral member of society, I ask on what ground of right, human or divine, the publican is to be allowed to turn men upon society whom he has first contributed to derationalise, and convert for the time into mutinous beasts?”
“We might urge that reason is none the less reason when it is not conscious inference, and that it is a fallacy to derationalise political society because it is not an explicit organisation of conscious reason.”
“Probation officers at different prisons all seemed to deal with this 'rationalising of crime' in similar ways: "We have a debate and derationalise the crime.”
“First, he may derationalise, or remove as far as possible from commonplace experience, the general surroundings amidst which the supernatural is to appear.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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