biographeen.
/bʌɪˌɒɡrəˈfiː/, U.S. /baɪˌɑɡrəˈfi/ A person who is the subject of a biography or biographical article.
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1812 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 171/2 Having been again brought out at the little Theatre in 1783, our fair biographee..made her debut in the character of Sally.
1879 Athenæum 29 Nov. 687/1 There is too much of the biographer in it, and not enough of the biographee.
1933 L. Woolf Let. 21 Feb. (1990) 315 A series of biographies in French which consist almost entirely of contemporary records about the biographee.
1967 Jrnl. Negro Hist. 52 238 The first comprehensive biography of Carver..was published twenty-four years ago, in the year of the biographee's death.
2002 M. Holroyd Wks. on Paper 35 Part of what lies behind this process is a lack of self-esteem which may cause the biographer to ‘disappear’—and then reappear by mixing his identity with that of the biographee.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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