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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(transitive) To undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of..
[…] with a life-destroying, hideous article clumsily stuck before the personified noun to unpersonify it, to make masculine what should be feminine, […]
Now he found it did nothing to unpersonify them. He'd loved his steed. He'd loved his hound. Their blood had been red.
Use unpersonify when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Unpersonify means (transitive) To undo the personification of; to remove the personhood of..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] with a life-destroying, hideous article clumsily stuck before the personified noun to unpersonify it, to make masculine what should be feminine, […]
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