Definition of "unrooting" []

• Present participle of unroot. (verb)

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• "Some of these, owing to non-compliance with the Judge's ruling, may have to be evicted, and their eviction will be what is termed the unrooting of peasants 'houses and the ejectment of overburdened tenants for not paying impossible rents."
• "But it does hint at the dangers of a sudden unrooting from entrenched mores."
• "He can only wail over the prevalence of evil, assume its foundation to be error, and purpose to abate it by unrooting that"