Sentence:  Henchard was, by original make, the last man to act stealthily, for good or for evil. But the "solicitus timor" of his love &mdash; the dependence upon Elizabeth's love into which he had declined (or, in another sense, to which he had advanced) &mdash; <WSD>denaturalized</WSD> him. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make less natural; to cause to deviate from its nature.