A human who has been stripped of rights, identity or humanity.
Verb
To strip (a human being) of rights, identity or humanity.
Origin
From un- + person. as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, where it refers to a person who has been executed or has fallen out of favor, whose entire history has been erased.
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