ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Depersonate

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Depersonate is a verb meaning To depersonalize; to remove the status of a person.

Meaning

To depersonalize; to remove the status of a person.

Example Sentences

The fantasy of robotic masses expresses a complex desire, to embody and depersonate at the same time.
Is there not a tendency to speak of the operation of the Holy Spirit as that of an influence, rather than an agency — to depersonate or impersonate Him?
In "St. Simeon Stylites" (1833), camparably, the monologist's obsession with gaining a sanctified fame leads him to depersonate himself into the very stone pillar on which he sits, the epithet by which he has his identity: he names himself, "I, Simeon of the pillar, by surname / Stylites, among men; I, Simeon, / The watcher on the column till the end" (lines 158-60).

Word Forms

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Related dictionary entries include deperson, depersonalise, depersonalize, dispersonalize, dispersonate, impersonalize.

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