deracination

Example Sentences

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In its place we get the milder problem of deracination, since she will have to move to Hemant’s home in the States: Can she learn to love New Jersey?

From New York Times • May 23, 2023

It’s really Felicity who functions as our protagonist, as we witness her dogged, creative pursuit of justice, despite all the deracination she experiences.

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2021

But the recognition afforded by memorials such as Wyoming’s demonstrate the power of a memory that fuels an enduring presence in the face of victimry and deracination.

From Salon • Nov. 29, 2014

Photograph: Richard Saker / Rex Features Americanah, wrote Sam Leith in the Financial Times, is "a novel about race and deracination, homesickness, the experience of, and need for, feeling at home."

From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2013

They can be explained—in part at least—in terms of that social deracination to which reference has already been made.

From Modern Religious Cults and Movements by Atkins, Gaius Glenn