| 释义 |
personhood
[f. person n. + -hood.]
The quality or condition of being an individual person.
1959Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Apr. 197/3 From there he proceeds to the machine-like properties of animals and so on up to responsible human personhood. 1971Time 13 Dec. 36 The United Church of Christ has in hand a statement written by six Christian education executives which maintains that sex is moral if the partners are committed to the ‘fulfilling of each other's personhood’—pointedly omitting marriage as a prerequisite. 1973Austral. Humanist xxvi. 10/1 The locus of power needs to move from institutionalization towards man in his personhood, thus freeing man to respond to life with his own body, his own thinking, feeling and acting, expressing his abilities by working creatively with his human, natural and material environments. 1973Black World Mar. 71 ‘Collage’ defines her Black womanhood first in relation to her personhood, selfhood, or humanness and then in relation to her femininity. 1974K. Millett Flying (1975) i. 34 There is something healing in her talk: its religious care for personhood. 1976Church Times 12 Nov. 9/1 My un⁓reflective believers have been denied the home atmosphere which encourages them to find their own personhood and value it. |