personhood

NOUN
  1. being a person
    finding her own personhood as a campus activist
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How To Use personhood In A Sentence

  • If you suppress the idea of personhood then you suppress the notion of individual culpability. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • Until we finally address the depressing state of the American male -- how he has been reduced to an automaton designed to pursue power, money, or fame with scant emphasis on the cultivation of his humanity and personhood -- we will continue to witness men acting out, doing anything they can to feel sexy, desirable, and salve their macerated egos. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anthony Weiner and Why Powerful Men Self-Destruct
  • Nor is personhood determined by size or development.
  • Even minimal awareness would support some criterion of personhood, but I don't think complete absence of awareness does.
  • The notion of personhood identifies a category of morally considerable beings that is thought to be coextensive with humanity.
  • While it certainly won't forestall all attacks on my personhood, perhaps some will be defused.
  • Of course in the United States actionability is based not on personhood but citizenship in a state recognized by the United States. The Volokh Conspiracy » Rampant Speciesism
  • According to the Association Against Animal Factories, "personhood" is the only way to make sure that Pan, who previously lived in a now-bankrupt shelter, doesn't end up under nasty ownership outside of Austria. Boing Boing
  • What photography mummifies, distorts and murders, among other things, is the sense that the reality of the self resides in the body, the corporeal and temporal boundaries of personhood.
  • Personhood USA hopes to get proposals on the ballot in nearly half the states by 2012.
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