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unpersonify en · VERB

Etymology

From un- + personify.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of.
   • Now he found it did nothing to unpersonify them. He'd loved his steed. He'd loved his hound. Their blood had been red. 2015, Hannah Rose Williams, Never Taste Death, page 225:
   • […] with a life-destroying, hideous article clumsily stuck before the personified noun to unpersonify it, to make masculine what should be feminine, […] 1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 36:

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