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dispersonify

verb

Etymology

From dis- + personify.

  1. derived from personnifier
  2. prefixed as dispersonify — “dis + personify”

Definitions

  1. To view as impersonal

    To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes.

    • It is almost impossible for the most prosaic mind to dispersonify a ship. It requires a greater effort probably on the part of the Englishman to view a ship as an inanimate object than for the ancient Greek to dispersonify the sun or moon.
    • When even a stone was a cutter, a tooth a grinder, a gimlet a borer, the difficulty was not how to personify, but how to dispersonify.
    • Along these lines we can approach a pure allegorical reading — pure in being univocal, not hybridized. In this reading predicates are construed so as radically to dispersonify their meanings.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA