Etymology

unperson

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Today it means: A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity. Full definition →

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The story

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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