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a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration
George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would be treated as unpersons
How To Use nonperson In A Sentence
- nonpersonal forces
- “numinous” from the Latin word numen, which denoted a supernatural nonpersonalized being. ORIGINS OF RELIGION
- This is admittedly a nonpersonal sense of 'infer', but the usage still infuriates language sticklers. Times, Sunday Times
- the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration
- Somehow they were able to see from point A, where they stood -- corseted, ornamental, legally nonpersons -- to point C, the "regenerated" world Gage predicted, in which all repressive institutions would be destroyed. Draw mohammed day.
- Hospitals must publish all nonpersonal data about patient safety. Times, Sunday Times
- The kind of identity that the Ricoeurian self has is not like the nonpersonal entities that perdure simply as in some significant sense Paul Ricoeur
- He would be labeled a disaffected nonperson, fired from his teaching position, and possibly harassed by some ultra-revolutionary neighbors. OUTCAST