"dispersonify" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dis- + personify.",
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      "form": "dispersonifying",
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      "form": "dispersonified",
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      "form": "dispersonified",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1864, The Spectator - Volume 37, page 1363:",
          "text": "It is almost impossible for the most prosaic mind to dispersonify a ship. It requires a greater effort probably on the part of the Englishman to view a ship as an inanimate object than for the ancient Greek to dispersonify the sun or moon.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1899, Friedrich Max Müller, Collected Works, page 407:",
          "text": "When even a stone was a cutter, a tooth a grinder, a gimlet a borer, the difficulty was not how to personify, but how to dispersonify.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1981, Harvard English Studies - Volume 9, page 35:",
          "text": "Along these lines we can approach a pure allegorical reading — pure in being univocal, not hybridized. In this reading predicates are construed so as radically to dispersonify their meanings.",
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        {
          "ref": "2016, Heather Keenleyside, Animals and Other People:",
          "text": "With these shifts in point of view, Thomson makes body parts not only the objects or the means but also the subjects of personification, granting the eyes and ears of a bee or a hare the power to dispersonify humans.",
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        "To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes."
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        [
          "impersonal",
          "impersonal"
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          "object",
          "object"
        ],
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          "personal",
          "personal"
        ],
        [
          "attribute",
          "attribute"
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  "word": "dispersonify"
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      "form": "dispersonified",
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          "ref": "1864, The Spectator - Volume 37, page 1363:",
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        "To view as impersonal; to see as an object rather than as having personal attributes."
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