destructuring

English

Verb

destructuring

1. present participle and gerund of destructure

Noun

destructuring (countable and uncountable, plural destructurings)

1. The process by which something is destructured.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 251:

     But if man can accept initiation to see that Lilith is his long-lost primordial wife, then the energies of destruction can be transmuted and taken up into the creative destructuring of the old civilization, the industrial civilization that humanity has already outgrown.