a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons)
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Examples of unperson
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As a result, Solzhenitsyn has become an unperson in the Soviet literary community.
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Would you like to answer this question, or do you feel that I am an unperson?
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Despite his Orwellian unperson status, Biermann continues to turn out songs and poems.
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Ex-arms inspector Hans Blix has clearly become an unperson, his criticisms ignored and going unanswered.
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During the beginning of World War II his status within the USSR became that of a political unperson.
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A media darling one day, an unperson the next.
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After noting that Syme's name was deleted from the members list of the Chess Club, Winston infers he became an unperson who never had existed.
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One small example of the endless censorship is when Winston is charged with the task of eliminating reference to an unperson in a newspaper article.
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- Nonperson: a person regarded as nonexistent and having no rights; a person whose existence is systematically ignored (especially for ideological or political reasons); "the former senator is treated as a nonperson by this administration"; "George Orwell predicted that political dissidents would ...
- In George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, the fictional language Newspeak attempts to influence thought by influencing the expressiveness of the English language.
- A human who has been stripped of rights, identity or humanity
- (Unpersons) (13 September 2011) - Mint Records
