unperson

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity.
    — With his identity stolen, he became an unperson, unable to prove his existence to the government.
动词 v.
  1. To strip (a person) of rights, identity, or humanity; to dehumanize. transitive
    — 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."

词形变化

unpersons plural unpeople plural unpersons present,singular,third-person unpersoning participle,present unpersoned participle,past unpersoned past

词源

词源 1
From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.
词源 2
From un- + person. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor; whose entire history has been erased.
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