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How to pronounce personhood in English?

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Type Words
Type of identity, individuality, personal identity
Derivation person


finding her own personhood as a campus activist.

Examples of personhood

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The conservative blogs have been largely indifferent to the personhood amendment.
From the economist.com
The so-called personhood measure bestows human rights on fertilized human eggs.
From the freep.com
A personhood amendment, you may recall, defines life as starting at conception.
From the takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com
I've always wondered how personhood at conception works out with identical twins.
From the economist.com
Other anti-abortion activists cite other problems with the personhood strategy.
From the npr.org
If the personhood measure does become law, they would almost certainly be banned.
From the economist.com
Jesus carried this quality of embodied presence in his personhood and ministry.
From the heraldmagazine.wordpress.com
They are not the only researchers who are sure that autistics have no personhood.
From the newscientist.com
Personhood USA also plans on pushing for such amendments in Montana and Oregon.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • Being a person; "finding her own personhood as a campus activist"
  • A person (from the Latin persona "mask": "The Latin word persona was originally used to denote the mask worn by an actor. From this it was applied to the role he assumed, and, finally, to any character on the stage of life, to any individual.") is any individual human being. ...
  • The state or period of being a person
  • What is it to be a person? What is necessary, and what suffices, for something to count as a person, as opposed to a non-person? What have people got that non-people haven't got? This amounts more or less to asking for the definition of the word person. ...