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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)

  1. (transitive) 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

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Questions about unpersoning

What is unpersoning the present participle and gerund of?
Unpersoning is the present participle and gerund of unperson.

Words near unpersoning in the dictionary

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

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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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