noun
Meaning 1
An apostate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
deconvert
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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General-American: /diːˈkɒnvɜːt/
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General-American: /diːkənˈvɜːt/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)t
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rhymes with -ɒnvə(ɹ)t
verb
Meaning 2
To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- She has deconverted from Christianity, Islam, Judaism, etc.
- They tried to deconvert him.
- 1961, Catholic University of America, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic University of America Press, etc., p. 236, The very devout and older Catholics are naturally inclined to see in the sudden North American fury to deconvert and decatholicize Hispanic America an enterprise that is not inspired by Christ but by the Devil, some sort of spiritual rape of the Latin republics.
- 2005, Anne Schiller, 'Our Heart Always Remembers, We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': Sacred Songs and the Revitalization of Indigenous Religion Among the Indonesian Ngaju, read in Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern (editors), Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, p.111, Some older adherents of Kaharingan reportedly deconvert from the traditional faith to Christianity for fear that their offspring will not conduct proper mortuary rituals on their behalf when it becomes necessary.
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verb
Meaning 3
To revert or (transitive) to restore.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Examples
- 2005, Alexander Gelbukh, LINK (Online service), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 6th International Conference, CICLing 2005, Springer, →ISBN, p.373, To generate the MA corresponding to a UNL graph, generate an “extended instance” of the UNL graph for each possible variant in that language, deconvert these UNL graphs, then continue as with normal translation...
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reconvert, roll back, deconvert, rehabilitate, restitute, restore, revert
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- 1963, William E Glynn, Leadership Roles read in Paul Vernon Betters (editor), City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, p. 86, Roofs were repaired, houses were painted, and rooming houses converted back to single family residences. And meanwhile the owners have spent about $60000 to deconvert the building to its legal use...Orders to deconvert buildings which had been cut up into smaller apartments totaled 156 last year compared with 77 in 1961.
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History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *de Proto-Indo-European *-h1 Proto-Indo-European *déh1 Proto-Italic *dē Latin dē Latin dē-der. English de- Latin convertōder. Old French convertirbor. Middle English converten English convert English deconvert From de- + convert.