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unpersonifying

unpersonifying is the present participle and gerund of unpersonify.

Meaning of unpersonify

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

Questions about unpersonifying

What is unpersonifying the present participle and gerund of?
Unpersonifying is the present participle and gerund of unpersonify.

Words near unpersonifying in the dictionary

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

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