Definition of "deconvert"
deconvert
verb
third-person singular simple present deconverts, present participle deconverting, simple past and past participle deconverted
(intransitive) To undergo a deconversion from a religion, faith or belief or (transitive) to induce (someone) to reject a particular religion, faith, or belief.
Quotations
The very devout and older Catholics are naturally inclined to see in the sudden North American fury to deconvert and decatholicize Hispanic America an enterprise that is not inspired by Christ but by the Devil, some sort of spiritual rape of the Latin republics.
1961, Catholic University of America, Herman Joseph Heuser, The American Ecclesiastical Review, Catholic University of America Press, etc., p. 236
Some older adherents of Kaharingan reportedly deconvert from the traditional faith to Christianity for fear that their offspring will not conduct proper mortuary rituals on their behalf when it becomes necessary.
2005, Anne Schiller, 'Our Heart Always Remembers, We Think of the Words as Long as We Live': Sacred Songs and the Revitalization of Indigenous Religion Among the Indonesian Ngaju, read in Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern (editors), Expressive Genres and Historical Change: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Taiwan, Ashgate Publishing Ltd, p.111
(intransitive) To revert or (transitive) to restore.
Quotations
Other organisations have investigated similar technologies or are developing alternative technologies to deconvert UF6 to a stable oxide UF4 or metal form.
2001, Nuclear Energy Agency, Management of Depleted Uranium: A Joint Report, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, page 21
To generate the MA corresponding to a UNL graph, generate an “extended instance” of the UNL graph for each possible variant in that language, deconvert these UNL graphs, then continue as with normal translation...
2005, Alexander Gelbukh, LINK (Online service), Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing: 6th International Conference, CICLing 2005, Springer, p.373
(transitive) To change a building that has been converted to a new use back to its original use; specifically to change a house that has been converted into apartments or flats back to a single-family dwelling.
Quotations
Roofs were repaired, houses were painted, and rooming houses converted back to single family residences. And meanwhile the owners have spent about $60000 to deconvert the building to its legal use...Orders to deconvert buildings which had been cut up into smaller apartments totaled 156 last year compared with 77 in 1961.
1963, William E Glynn, Leadership Roles read in Paul Vernon Betters (editor), City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, City Problems: The Annual Proceedings of the United States Conference of Mayors, p. 86
The supply of furnished accommodation might decline because landlords faced with rent regulation would prefer to occupy the whole of the property themselves, leave it empty or, given a house price boom, deconvert for owner-occupation.
2002, Paul N. Balchin, Maureen Rhoden, Housing Policy: An Introduction, UK: Routledge, page 138
We've done a reasonably good job of trying to deconvert back to an owner-occupied setting.
2005, United States Congress: House: Committee on Government Reform: Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census, A Top to Bottom Review of the Three-Decades-Old Community Development Block Grant Program..., page 47