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Minnaloushe Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Unperson


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- Can "unperson" serve as a verb?

I looked up my own dictionary, which doesn't adopt it. The online Oxford dictionary only defines it as a noun as below"

noun (plural unpersons)

A person whose name or existence is denied or ignored, especially because of a political misdemeanour.
Yet, I am not sure I understood. Does it literally mean his power is ignored?

Is it an unusal word? (Because my dictionary doesn't adopt it.)

Thanks!
  

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Unperson is not normally used as a verb, but the writers of that sentence have used it as one, and it is acceptable in that context. A person whose name or existence is denied or ignored , especially because of a political misdemeanour . Yet, I am not sure I understood.

— Fivejedjon

  • Unperson is not normally used as a verb, but the writers of that sentence have used it as one, and it is acceptable in that context.
  • A person whose name or existence is denied or ignored , especially because of a political misdemeanour .
  • Yet, I am not sure I understood.
  • Does it literally mean his power is ignored?
  • The definition makes no mention of power.
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Unperson is not normally used as a verb, but the writers of that sentence have used it as one, and it is acceptable in that context.
A person whose name or existence is
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I usually hear and say the form 'a non-person'.
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MinnalousheThis user has been unpersonned by unanimous agreement amongst the administration of this forum.
... has been banned ...

Compare also "to shun".

"unperson" is definitely unusual, both as a noun and a verb, but especially as a verb.

CJ
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