Definition of non-person in English:

non-person

noun

A person regarded as non-existent or unimportant, or as having no rights; an ignored or forgotten person.
these players were famous within their own communities, but non-persons outside them
Compare with unperson
Example sentencesExamples
- Widows were considered burdens upon the community and family and they became non-persons.
- If Colmes remains largely a non-person in progressive circles, his tendency to concede points to the right and criticize the left make him the favorite liberal of many conservatives.
- They arrived, if they did arrive, utterly separated from their homelands and families, non-persons who were to be useful only for their work.
- It was like I was a non-person and it left me feeling quite disgusted and upset.
- Can you give us a glimpse into what it is like to have become a non-person amongst your former community?
- That law allowed slave owners to kill their slaves, as the rights of life, liberty, and freedom do not extend to non-persons.
- The student becomes a non-person in the group and either has to find a new organization or gives up aikido altogether.
- When that's gone, you start to feel like you're becoming a non-person.
- Although the case was dismissed, deprived of passport, he became a non-person.
- But to Steve, he was apparently invisible, a non-person of the high school world.
- I have not talked to him and as far as I'm concerned he is a non-person.
- There is a real danger that immigrants may become non-persons in modern Ireland, leading to their marginalisation.
- Newt Gingrich, who defined the Republican Party in the '90s, was a non-person at this convention.
- The 16 year old was a non-person to Ken; simply an arguing point.
- Rumfoord didn't take him seriously, since he considered him a non-person better off dead.
- Trotsky had been declared a non-person and left radicalism had experienced a macabre renaissance in the form of the so-called Third Period of class struggle propagated by the Stalinist-dominated Comintern since 1928.
- But Cornelia Rau's sister says Government policy must now be carefully managed to ensure non-citizens aren't simply treated as non-persons.
- They were not allowed to vote because they were considered sub-rational non-persons!
- Contemporary law classified married and under-aged women as non-persons, their identities being subsumed under that of their husband or father.
- That fact is relevant only if embryos are non-persons.
Synonyms
insignificant person, nobody, nonentity, gnat, insect, cipher, pygmy

单词	non-person
释义	Definition of non-person in English: non-person noun A person regarded as non-existent or unimportant, or as having no rights; an ignored or forgotten person. these players were famous within their own communities, but non-persons outside them Compare with unperson Example sentencesExamples Widows were considered burdens upon the community and family and they became non-persons. If Colmes remains largely a non-person in progressive circles, his tendency to concede points to the right and criticize the left make him the favorite liberal of many conservatives. They arrived, if they did arrive, utterly separated from their homelands and families, non-persons who were to be useful only for their work. It was like I was a non-person and it left me feeling quite disgusted and upset. Can you give us a glimpse into what it is like to have become a non-person amongst your former community? That law allowed slave owners to kill their slaves, as the rights of life, liberty, and freedom do not extend to non-persons. The student becomes a non-person in the group and either has to find a new organization or gives up aikido altogether. When that's gone, you start to feel like you're becoming a non-person. Although the case was dismissed, deprived of passport, he became a non-person. But to Steve, he was apparently invisible, a non-person of the high school world. I have not talked to him and as far as I'm concerned he is a non-person. There is a real danger that immigrants may become non-persons in modern Ireland, leading to their marginalisation. Newt Gingrich, who defined the Republican Party in the '90s, was a non-person at this convention. The 16 year old was a non-person to Ken; simply an arguing point. Rumfoord didn't take him seriously, since he considered him a non-person better off dead. Trotsky had been declared a non-person and left radicalism had experienced a macabre renaissance in the form of the so-called Third Period of class struggle propagated by the Stalinist-dominated Comintern since 1928. But Cornelia Rau's sister says Government policy must now be carefully managed to ensure non-citizens aren't simply treated as non-persons. They were not allowed to vote because they were considered sub-rational non-persons! Contemporary law classified married and under-aged women as non-persons, their identities being subsumed under that of their husband or father. That fact is relevant only if embryos are non-persons. Synonyms insignificant person, nobody, nonentity, gnat, insect, cipher, pygmy
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