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uniˈpersonal, a.
[See uni- and personal a. Cf. F. unipersonnel (in sense 2), Pg. unipessonal.]
1. a. Consisting of a single person or individual.
c1810Coleridge in Lit. Rem. (1838) III. 220 If there be a functionary of divine institution, synodical or unipersonal, who with the name of the ‘Church’ has the right [etc.].
b. Having, or existing as, one person.
Cf. tri-personal a. and person 7 a.
1869Contemp. Rev. XII. 450 The God of the Bible is neither unipersonal nor tripersonal in that sense of person. 1901R. C. Moberly Atonem. & Person. viii. 172 [Not] one of them [sc. analogies]..go far towards enabling uni-personal man to enter into the consciousness of Tri-personality.
2. Gram. Of a verb: = impersonal a. 1. rare.
1843G. Crane Princ. Lang. v. 207 Verbs, which thus express action without a definitely conceived subject, are called impersonal, or perhaps more properly unipersonal, verbs. 1860Worcester (citing Wells). [Hence in Webster (1864) and later Dicts.]
Hence uniˈpersonalist, a believer in the unipersonality of the Deity (1846 Worcester, citing Faber); unipersoˈnality, existence in one person.
1859J. Martineau Ess. & Addr. (1891) II. 389 If we set up as our essential a doctrine, like that of the Unipersonality of God. 1884― in Life (1902) II. viii. 70. |