Meaning of dispersonify | Babel Free

Definitions

To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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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