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undemocratise

undemocratise is the alternative spelling of undemocratize.

Meaning of undemocratize

Verb

undemocratize (third-person singular simple present undemocratizes, present participle undemocratizing, simple past and past participle undemocratized)

  1. To make not democratic, or less democratic
    • But there is still a very wide difference between the willing and persistent, and the accidental and unwilling, holding of slaves, in respect to the influence which slave-holding exerts to undemocratize the master.1865, Thomas Goodwin, The Natural History of Secession, page 73

Forms of undemocratise

third-person singular presentundemocratises
present participleundemocratising
past participleundemocratised
pastundemocratised

Origin of undemocratise

From un- + democratise.

Words formed from undemocratise

Questions about undemocratise

What is undemocratise the alternative spelling of?
Undemocratise is the alternative spelling of undemocratize.

Words near undemocratise in the dictionary

  1. undemised
  2. undemocratic
  3. undemocratically
  4. undemocraticness
  5. undemocratisation
  6. undemocratise
  7. undemocratised
  8. undemocratises
  9. undemocratising
  10. undemocratizable
  11. undemocratization

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