unpersonify

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verb

To undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of.

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Meanings

verbunpersonify (third-person singular simple present unpersonifies, present participle unpersonifying, simple past and past participle unpersonified)

present singular third person unpersonifies · participle present unpersonifying · participle past unpersonified · past unpersonified

  1. transitiveTo undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of.

    Now he found it did nothing to unpersonify them. He'd loved his steed. He'd loved his hound. Their blood had been red.

    2015, Hannah Rose Williams, Never Taste Death, page 225
    1 more example

    […] 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

Origin

From un- + personify.

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APA

unpersonify. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpersonify

MLA

“unpersonify.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpersonify. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “unpersonify,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/unpersonify.

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