decult

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verb

To dissuade (someone) or to become dissuaded from believing in a cult.

Scrabble 9

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verbdecult (third-person singular simple present decults, present participle deculting, simple past and past participle deculted)

present singular third person decults · participle present deculting · participle past deculted · past deculted

  1. To dissuade (someone) or to become dissuaded from believing in a cult.

    I kind of feel sorry for her. She has Trump Derangement Syndrome and needs help. She needs to go to rehab to be deculted

    2018 June 25, “Roseanne Barr Opens Up About ABC Firing in Tearful Interview: "I've Made Myself a Hate Magnet"”, in The Data Lounge
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    This is a long and crazy process being deculted but some day you will look back and think how could I have ever believed that junk.

    2003 February 21, Terryk, “Think Billy Graham Secretly Keeps the Sabbath?”, in Former Adventist Fellowship Forum

    Finally, two El Shaddai healers associated with a local chapter are well known in the community for healing, exorcism, deculting, and counseling .

    2004, Katharine L. Wiegele, Investing in Miracles, page 118

    However, brother dear has set up some kind of 'deculting' process in some outskirts home. After several hours it's hopeless, Zaynab is angry to be deceived, and so is everyone else that Zaynab didn't cave to their more than persuasive arguments of coming back to the faith and giving up going back to America.

    2016, George Zoebl, It's Just My Nature, page 172

    "So how, pray tell, did you decult?" She took a sip. "I mean, purely for theraphy research purposes, of course." She winked at me. "It's so weird. It's like, all of a sudden, I realized that this man was a nutjob. […]"

    2020, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Feels Like Falling, page 311

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