unpersoning
unpersoning is the present participle and gerund of unperson.
Meaning of unperson
Verb
unperson (third-person singular simple present unpersons, present participle unpersoning, simple past and past participle unpersoned)
- To strip (a person) of rights, identity, or humanity; to dehumanize.
- 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."1958 May 3, anonymous author, “Lay Professors in Catholic Colleges”, in America, volume 99, number 5, →ISSN, page 160
Questions about unpersoning
- What is unpersoning the present participle and gerund of?
- Unpersoning is the present participle and gerund of unperson.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpersoning (page history and authors); unperson (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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