ignorize

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verb

To promote ignorance; to withhold from education.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

verbignorize (third-person singular simple present ignorizes, present participle ignorizing, simple past and past participle ignorized)

present singular third person ignorizes · participle present ignorizing · participle past ignorized · past ignorized

  1. nonce wordTo promote ignorance; to withhold from education.

    'Tis a great part of wellbeing to ignorize a good deal of your fellowman's history & not count his warts nor expect the hour when he shall wash his teeth.

    1964, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred R. Ferguson, The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
    1 more example

    But no, those PhD Chicanos have bought the Hispanic Latino imposition led by both the federal government but also daily presses such as the Los Angeles Times (beautiful Spanglish) to ignorize the reader into killing the Mexican American/Chicano identity and succumb to their impose term of Latino.

    2008, Julián Segura Camacho, Higher Education as Ignorance: The Contempt of Mexicans in the American Educational System
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Chicago

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