unpersonify
English
Verb
unpersonify (third-person singular simple present unpersonifies, present participle unpersonifying, simple past and past participle unpersonified)
- (transitive) To undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of.
- 1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language, page 36:
- […] with a life-destroying, hideous article clumsily stuck before the personified noun to unpersonify it, to make masculine what should be feminine, […]
- 2015, Hannah Rose Williams, Never Taste Death, page 225:
- Now he found it did nothing to unpersonify them. He'd loved his steed. He'd loved his hound. Their blood had been red.
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