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personhood

/pur-suhn-hood/US // ˈpɜr sənˌhʊd //UK // (ˈp£ːsənˌhʊd) //

个人身份,人格,人身,人的身份

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or fact of being a person.
    • : the state or fact of being an individual or having human characteristics and feelings: a harsh prison system that deprives prisoners of their personhood.

Examples

  • In addition to the torment she experiences at the hands of her sadistic owners and other slaves in higher social standing than her, her mother’s abandonment has left a festering wound that’s diminished her sense of personhood.

  • The way we’re responding to people, their personhood and their dignity, that’s the issue, not the amount of people.

  • In doing so, it privileges biological conceptions of personhood over other more holistic notions of a human life.

  • Paid sick leave, personhood, you name it, all of them went in the progressive direction, most of them by overwhelmingly margins.

  • By a margin of 63 percent to 37 percent, Colorado voters rejected the “personhood” measure.

  • In Colorado, voters will decide whether to support a controversial “personhood” amendment to the state constitution.

  • He believes brain chemistry undermines his sense of free will and personhood and that psychology explains away love and altruism.

  • Charles Siebert, The New York Times Magazine Steven Wise is arguing for the legal “personhood” of chimps and other animals.

  • As a process, personhood acknowledges the person as having continuous potential for further tapping the current of caring.

  • This personal knowing enables the nurse to respond to the unique call for nurturing personhood.

  • And it is in the nursing situation that the nurse attends to calls for caring, creating caring responses that nurture personhood.

  • Further, the experience of the caring within the nursing situation enhances personhood, the process of living grounded in caring.

  • The caring between the nurse and the ones nursed enhanced the personhood of all three, as each grew in caring ways.