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unpersonify

unpersonify verb: to undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of.

Verb

unpersonify (third-person singular simple present unpersonifies, present participle unpersonifying, simple past and past participle unpersonified)

  1. (transitive) To undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of.
    • […] 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
    • 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

Forms of unpersonify

third-person singular presentunpersonifies
present participleunpersonifying
past participleunpersonified
pastunpersonified

Origin of unpersonify

From un- + personify.

Questions about unpersonify

What does unpersonify mean?
Unpersonify means to undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of.
What part of speech is unpersonify?
Unpersonify is a verb.
What is the past tense of unpersonify?
The past tense of unpersonify is unpersonified.

Words near unpersonify in the dictionary

  1. unpersonalized
  2. unpersoned
  3. unpersonifiable
  4. unpersonified
  5. unpersonifies
  6. unpersonify
  7. unpersonifying
  8. unpersoning
  9. unpersons
  10. unperspicacious
  11. unperspicaciously

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