单词 | unpersoning |
释义 | unpersoningn. The erasure of a person from all public records, usually for political reasons. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > [noun] > making obscure or inglorious nothinginga1645 nothingizing1834 obscuring1885 unpersoning1954 1954 Bradford (Pa.) Era 9 Oct. 8/2 But who can believe that the unpower of unknowledge through unpersoning really will win out in the long run? 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 156/3 The unpersoning process [in Czechoslovakia] had gathered momentum and many of the notables of 1968–69 were being rapidly transmogrified into the nobodies of the 1970s. 2003 S. J. Gould Hedgehog, Fox, & Magister's Pox iv. 63 I advance no secular conviction that bookburning, expurgation, and unpersoning represent exclusive strategies of religious dogmatists. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1954 |
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