depotentise

present singular third person depotentises · participle present depotentising · participle past depotentised · past depotentised

1. alternativeAlternative form of depotentize.

   The way the world often depotentises this urge is by providing plenty of meaning of the wrong kind to occupy the space meant for the search for causal meaning.

   2009, Tony Kearney, Boo!, page 22

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   It depotentises β-arabinose, whose element is copper, and which comprises the lymph gland and mammary gland membranes and the membranes of the eyelid and eyeballs.

   1985 March, Helen Fullerton, “Methyl Isocyanate Poisoning: A Homeopathic Remedy”, in The Hahnemannian Gleanings, page 68

   However, no merely formal safeguards can be effective against the power lust of persons who conspire to depotentise the very provisions intended to restrain just such persons as themselves.

   1998, Madhava Ashish -, Relating to Reality