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Unperson
Definitions
- 1 A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity; to dehumanize.
"With his identity stolen, he became an unperson, unable to prove his existence to the government."
- 2 a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons) wordnet
- 1 To strip (a person) of rights, identity, or humanity. transitive
"Unhappily, shortcomings here on the part of even a few schools provide a handle for the type of irresponsible generalization that recently labeled the lay professor on the Catholic campus "unwanted, unpaid, uncared for and unpersoned.""
Etymology
From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.
From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.
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