v. [UN-2 6 c.]
1. trans. To deprive of human virtues; to render inhuman or callous.
1752. Young, Brothers, III. i. Thy heart, how dead to every call of nature! Unson’d! unbrother’d! nay, unhumaniz’d!
1755. Man, No. 24. 3. A life consisting entirely of … sensual delights, unhumanises the soul.
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., VI. 398. How long, deluding phantom, wilt thou blind, Mislead, debase, unhumanize mankind?
1852. Hawthorne, Blithedale Rom., xviii. That cold tendency … appeared to have gone far towards unhumanizing my heart.
1860. I. Taylor, Spir. Hebrew Poetry (1873), 124. The work of slaughter did not unhumanize those who effected it.
2. To deprive of human qualities.
1800. Monthly Mag., X. 319. By endeavouring to sublimate his Jesus into a Jehovah, he unhumanizes the most lovely of characters.
Hence Unhumanized ppl. a.
c. 1780. Porteus, Serm. (1799), II. vi. 140. Purity is ridiculed and set at nought, as a sour, unsocial, unhumanized virtue.
1805. Foster, Ess. (1806), I. 207. The firmness … is accompanied … in a mere man of the world, with an unhumanized repulsive hardness.
1815. Kirby & Sp., Entomol., xiv. (1816), I. 434. The most ignorant and unhumanized of their race.
