unperson means A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why “unperson” is a great word
UNPERSON — [Noun] A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, and humanity, especially one whose existence is officially denied or erased. From the English prefix un- (meaning "not" or "reverse of") + person ("an individual human being"). Coined in 1949 by George Orwell in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unlike a "nonperson" (a legal cipher) or a "persona non grata" (a merely unwelcome yet remembered individual), an unperson is the target of a deliberate, retroactive annihilation. It is the vanished face cut from the group photograph, the name scissored from the newspaper archive, and the hollow silence that follows a corrected utterance—the ultimate victory of power is not to punish, but to unmake.
noun
- A person who has been stripped of rights, identity, or humanity.“With his identity stolen, he became an unperson, unable to prove his existence to the government.”
verb
- To strip (a person) of rights, identity, or humanity; to dehumanize.“Unhappily, shortcomings here on the part of even a few schools provide a handle for the type of irresponsible generalization that recently labeled the lay professor on the Catholic campus "unwanted, unpaid, uncared for and unpersoned."”