dispersonify

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ personify

Verb

dispersonify (third-person singular simple present dispersonifies, present participle dispersonifying, simple past and past participle dispersonified)

To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes.
- 1864, The Spectator - Volume 37, page 1363:
  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.
- 1899, Friedrich Max Müller, Collected Works, page 407:
  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.
- 1981, Harvard English Studies - Volume 9, page 35:
  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.
- 2016, Heather Keenleyside, Animals and Other People:
  With these shifts in point of view, Thomson makes body parts not only the objects or the means but also the subjects of personification, granting the eyes and ears of a bee or a hare the power to dispersonify humans.

单词	dispersonify
释义	dispersonify English Etymology dis- +‎ personify Verb dispersonify (third-person singular simple present dispersonifies, present participle dispersonifying, simple past and past participle dispersonified) To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes. 1864, The Spectator - Volume 37, page 1363: 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. 1899, Friedrich Max Müller, Collected Works, page 407: 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. 1981, Harvard English Studies - Volume 9, page 35: 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. 2016, Heather Keenleyside, Animals and Other People: With these shifts in point of view, Thomson makes body parts not only the objects or the means but also the subjects of personification, granting the eyes and ears of a bee or a hare the power to dispersonify humans.
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