"depersonate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "de- + person + -ate",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "depersonates",
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      "form": "depersonating",
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    {
      "form": "depersonated",
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    {
      "form": "depersonated",
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          "ref": "1847, The Biblical review, and Congregational magazine",
          "text": "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?",
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          "ref": "1993, Herbert F. Tucker, Critical essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson, page 101",
          "text": "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).",
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          "ref": "2014, Despina Kakoudaki, Anatomy of a Robot",
          "text": "The fantasy of robotic masses expresses a complex desire, to embody and depersonate at the same time.",
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        "To depersonalize; to remove the status of person."
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          "depersonalize",
          "depersonalize"
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          "person",
          "person"
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  "word": "depersonate"
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  "etymology_text": "de- + person + -ate",
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    {
      "form": "depersonates",
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        "singular",
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      "form": "depersonating",
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        "participle",
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      "form": "depersonated",
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      "form": "depersonated",
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        "past"
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        {
          "ref": "1847, The Biblical review, and Congregational magazine",
          "text": "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?",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Herbert F. Tucker, Critical essays on Alfred Lord Tennyson, page 101",
          "text": "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).",
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