unperson
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
un- + person. From the synthetic language "newspeak" in George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), where it refers to a person who has not only been executed but whose entire history has been erased.
Noun [edit]
unperson (plural unpersons or unpeople)
- A human who has been stripped of rights, identity or humanity.
- With his identity stolen he became an unperson unable to prove his existence to the government.
Translations [edit]
human stripped of rights
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