undemocratize

present singular third person undemocratizes · participle present undemocratizing · participle past undemocratized · past undemocratized · alternative undemocratise

1. To make not democratic, or less democratic

   because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government.

   1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page 149

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   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

   CEOs and American big business have blanketed United States public education officials with their influence and, as Emery and Ohanian prove, their fifteen-year drive to undemocratize public education has yielded a many-tentacled private-public monster.

   2004 September, The secret to making NCLB work? More bureaucrats, “Phi Delta Kappan”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)