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Democratize vs Undemocratize - What's the difference?

democratize | undemocratize | Related terms |

Undemocratize is a related term of democratize.



As verbs the difference between democratize and undemocratize

is that democratize is to make democratic while undemocratize is to make not democratic, or less democratic.

democratize

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To make democratic.
  • undemocratize

    English

    Alternative forms

    *undemocratise (Commonwealth)

    Verb

    (undemocratiz)
  • To make not democratic, or less democratic
  • *{{quote-book, 1865, Thomas Goodwin, The Natural History of Secession, page=73, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=bcBHAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA73
  • , passage=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.}}
  • *{{quote-book, 1931, Heinrich Ewald Buchholtz, Fads and fallacies in present-day education, page=149, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=UMqYmaLZDJoC&pg=PA149
  • , passage=because of the various attempts to undemocratize the government. }}
  • *{{quote-journal, 2004, date=September, The secret to making NCLB work? More bureaucrats, Phi Delta Kappan citation
  • , passage=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.}}

    Derived terms

    *undemocratization