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unperson

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8 lettersPart of speech nounSorted ennoprsuStarts with UEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. A person deliberately erased from public recognition or official notice.

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • With his identity stolen, he became an unperson, unable to prove his existence to the government.
  • Though Gao is classed as an unperson in China, which did not react officially yesterday, the award was forecast to cause widespread private joy there as the literary equivalent of the country winning the World Cup.
  • Could a decision in the clinic’s favor today mean that, in that future, the lab-gestated babies would be legally unpersoned, because the womb had been held to impart a worth the child did not have on its own?

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