unpeoplen.

Brit.

/ˈʌnpiːpl/, U.S.

/ˈənˌpip(ə)l/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, people n.

Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + people n., apparently after unperson n. Compare earlier unpeople v. 2, unpeopled adj.In quot. 1962 at sense 2 perhaps used to render Chinese fēirén person who is not treated as a human being, unperson (unchanged in plural) ( < fēi not, un- + rén person: see renminbi n.).

1. With singular agreement. Originally and chiefly in communist countries: an ethnic group whose status as a people is denied or disregarded.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one whose existence is denied > collectively

unpeople1952

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one whose existence is denied > for political misdemeanour > collectively

unpeople1952

1952 B. D. Wolfe in Foreign Affairs Oct. 39 The Balkarians are missing from Volume ‘B’ of the new edition of the ‘Great Encyclopedia’; the Volga Germans have become an unpeople.

1971 Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.) 14 Oct. 4/1 These Tartars..have become an unpeople.

1989 Slavonic & East European Rev. 67 303 Between 1941 and 1955 the Soviet Germans were an unpeople.

2005 E. S. Herman in A. Gleason et al. On Nineteen Eighty-four 118 The mainstream media treatment of the East Timorese as an unpeople was closely coordinated with U.S. policy.

2. With plural agreement. People who are regarded as non-existent or unimportant, esp. with regard to entitlement to rights, political representation, etc.

ΚΠ

1962 E. Snow Other Side of River l. 380 There is less mystery in China today than in most Communist countries about what both people and ‘unpeople’ find unbearable.

1970 Guardian Weekly 21 Mar. 6 People on foot on a hot road..walking from nowhere to nowhere... Tired people. Unpeople.

1975 Ld. Hailsham Door wherein I Went vi. 28 Communists teach that there was no such person as Jesus at all... He is the unperson to end all unpeople.

2002 J. Pilger New Rulers of New World 137 In the media age.., certain lives have media value..; the rest are unpeople.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

unpeoplev.

Brit.

/(ˌ)ʌnˈpiːpl/, U.S.

/ˌənˈpip(ə)l/

Forms: see un- prefix² and people v.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix², people v.

Etymology: < un- prefix² + people v., partly after Middle French, French †despeupler, †depeupler (now dépeupler ) dispeople v. Compare earlier dispeople v., and also depeople v., depopulate v.With recent use in sense 2, compare unpeople n.

Now somewhat rare.

a. transitive. To deprive or empty (a place or region) of inhabitants. Also figurative and in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > make less populous [verb (transitive)]

desolate1382

dispeople1490

disinhabit1530

unpeoplea1533

depopulate1595

unfurnish1603

unpopulate1658

unstock1865

the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > of any adjunct or asset

stripc1405

disgarnish1481

disray1483

disfurnish1531

unpeoplea1533

disarray1579

disrobe1606

diseffect1613

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xxiii. f. 38^v Thou haste vnpeopled [Fr. tu as despeuplé] the lanes and stretes of werkemen and offycers, and haste peopled it all aboute with infinite vacaboundes.

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes ii. xvii. f. 108/2 Rome was vnpeopeled [Sp. despoblada] of malicies, & adorned w^t vertuous Ladies.

1632 H. Hawkins tr. J.-P. de La Serre Thoughts Eternity 64 in Sweete Thoughts Death & Eternity The prodigality of thy Magnificences, hath vnpeopled [Fr. despeuplé] the ayre of Birds and the sea of fishes.

1753 J. E. Greiffenhahn Wohleingerichtete englische Grammatica Literatorum (ed. 3) 297 England was unpeopled of wolves by the Care of one of its Kings.

1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 161 Thirty-five years..have unpeopled her dominions of the slaves of love.

1823 T. Chalmers Serm. I. iv. 114 When the business of devotion is thus unpeopled of all its externals.

1882 C. Bradlaugh Genesis 232 God..repents him..that he has ever peopled this world at all, and so will at once unpeople it of all save a very few.

1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes ii. 141 God, after casting out the rebel angels..settling down to the peace of a heaven unpeopled of contradiction.

b. transitive. To depopulate (a place or region). Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > make less populous [verb (transitive)]

desolate1382

dispeople1490

disinhabit1530

unpeoplea1533

depopulate1595

unfurnish1603

unpopulate1658

unstock1865

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xxx. f. 50 Ignoraunce in a prince..sleeth dyuers, and infecteth all persons, and vnpeopleth the realme [Fr. depeuple les Royaumes].

1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iv. i. sig. G2 He [sc. Caesar] hath vnpeopled most part of the earth [Fr. il a..deserté d'habitans la plus part de la terre].

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 60 They have unpeopl'd the Kingdome by expulsion of so many thousands.

1685 N. Crouch Eng. Empire in Amer. i. 2 There is no such Torrid Zone where the heat is so noxious as to unpeople any part of the Earth.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 312 That costly Banquets..May crown thy Table,..Ransack the Hills,..The Lake unpeople, and despoil the Flood.

1760 Scots Mag. Feb. 89/2 Now, to unpeople ev'ry brook, The long-neglected mesh repairs.

1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 94 'Tis mine to sound the knell, and strike the blow, Which shall unpeople many palaces.

1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 328 Systematic ill government can do more to unpeople a land than..the Black Death.

1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow ix. 79 Diseases have unpeopled half the globe.

2002 N. Grene Shakespeare's Serial Hist. Plays iv. 97 Shakespeare peoples his scenes casually, and as casually unpeoples them.

2. transitive. To deprive of the status of a people.

ΘΚΠ

the world > people > ethnicities > [verb (transitive)] > divest of the status of a people

unpeople1641

1641 O. Sedgwick Doubting Beleever v. 298 It is an unadvised folly in the suspension of Gods favour, to unsonne our selves, and unpeople our selves.

a1714 M. Henry Expos. Hist. Bks. New Test. (1715) (Luke xiii. 6–9) sig. K4/2 God..justly determin'd to abandon them, and cut them off, to deprive them of their Priviledges, to unchurch and unpeople them.

1869 Banner of Truth (Hackensack, New Jersey) Sept. 45/1 Oh take heed that God doth not do to us as he did to Shiloh, unpeople us, unchurch us, and send a flying roll of curses against us.

2006 Times 10 June (Books section) 10/2 They thought being taught in Afrikaans, the language of a regime that had tried to ‘unpeople’ them, would cost them their last remaining freedom.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	unpeople
释义	unpeoplen. Brit. /ˈʌnpiːpl/, U.S. /ˈənˌpip(ə)l/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix¹, people n. Etymology: < un- prefix¹ + people n., apparently after unperson n. Compare earlier unpeople v. 2, unpeopled adj.In quot. 1962 at sense 2 perhaps used to render Chinese fēirén person who is not treated as a human being, unperson (unchanged in plural) ( < fēi not, un- + rén person: see renminbi n.). 1. With singular agreement. Originally and chiefly in communist countries: an ethnic group whose status as a people is denied or disregarded. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one whose existence is denied > collectively unpeople1952 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > one whose existence is denied > for political misdemeanour > collectively unpeople1952 1952 B. D. Wolfe in Foreign Affairs Oct. 39 The Balkarians are missing from Volume ‘B’ of the new edition of the ‘Great Encyclopedia’; the Volga Germans have become an unpeople. 1971 Morning Herald (Uniontown, Pa.) 14 Oct. 4/1 These Tartars..have become an unpeople. 1989 Slavonic & East European Rev. 67 303 Between 1941 and 1955 the Soviet Germans were an unpeople. 2005 E. S. Herman in A. Gleason et al. On Nineteen Eighty-four 118 The mainstream media treatment of the East Timorese as an unpeople was closely coordinated with U.S. policy. 2. With plural agreement. People who are regarded as non-existent or unimportant, esp. with regard to entitlement to rights, political representation, etc. ΚΠ 1962 E. Snow Other Side of River l. 380 There is less mystery in China today than in most Communist countries about what both people and ‘unpeople’ find unbearable. 1970 Guardian Weekly 21 Mar. 6 People on foot on a hot road..walking from nowhere to nowhere... Tired people. Unpeople. 1975 Ld. Hailsham Door wherein I Went vi. 28 Communists teach that there was no such person as Jesus at all... He is the unperson to end all unpeople. 2002 J. Pilger New Rulers of New World 137 In the media age.., certain lives have media value..; the rest are unpeople. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). unpeoplev. Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈpiːpl/, U.S. /ˌənˈpip(ə)l/ Forms: see un- prefix² and people v. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation; partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: un- prefix², people v. Etymology: < un- prefix² + people v., partly after Middle French, French †despeupler, †depeupler (now dépeupler ) dispeople v. Compare earlier dispeople v., and also depeople v., depopulate v.With recent use in sense 2, compare unpeople n. Now somewhat rare. 1. a. transitive. To deprive or empty (a place or region) of inhabitants. Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > make less populous [verb (transitive)] desolate1382 dispeople1490 disinhabit1530 unpeoplea1533 unpeoplea1533 depopulate1595 unfurnish1603 unpopulate1658 unstock1865 the mind > possession > loss > taking away > take away [verb (transitive)] > deprive (of) > of any adjunct or asset stripc1405 disgarnish1481 disray1483 disfurnish1531 unpeoplea1533 disarray1579 disrobe1606 diseffect1613 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xxiii. f. 38^v Thou haste vnpeopled [Fr. tu as despeuplé] the lanes and stretes of werkemen and offycers, and haste peopled it all aboute with infinite vacaboundes. 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes ii. xvii. f. 108/2 Rome was vnpeopeled [Sp. despoblada] of malicies, & adorned w^t vertuous Ladies. 1632 H. Hawkins tr. J.-P. de La Serre Thoughts Eternity 64 in Sweete Thoughts Death & Eternity The prodigality of thy Magnificences, hath vnpeopled [Fr. despeuplé] the ayre of Birds and the sea of fishes. 1753 J. E. Greiffenhahn Wohleingerichtete englische Grammatica Literatorum (ed. 3) 297 England was unpeopled of wolves by the Care of one of its Kings. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey II. 161 Thirty-five years..have unpeopled her dominions of the slaves of love. 1823 T. Chalmers Serm. I. iv. 114 When the business of devotion is thus unpeopled of all its externals. 1882 C. Bradlaugh Genesis 232 God..repents him..that he has ever peopled this world at all, and so will at once unpeople it of all save a very few. 1926 S. T. Warner Lolly Willowes ii. 141 God, after casting out the rebel angels..settling down to the peace of a heaven unpeopled of contradiction. b. transitive. To depopulate (a place or region). Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > population > make less populous [verb (transitive)] desolate1382 dispeople1490 disinhabit1530 unpeoplea1533 unpeoplea1533 depopulate1595 unfurnish1603 unpopulate1658 unstock1865 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xxx. f. 50 Ignoraunce in a prince..sleeth dyuers, and infecteth all persons, and vnpeopleth the realme [Fr. depeuple les Royaumes]. 1594 T. Kyd tr. R. Garnier Cornelia iv. i. sig. G2 He [sc. Caesar] hath vnpeopled most part of the earth [Fr. il a..deserté d'habitans la plus part de la terre]. 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 60 They have unpeopl'd the Kingdome by expulsion of so many thousands. 1685 N. Crouch Eng. Empire in Amer. i. 2 There is no such Torrid Zone where the heat is so noxious as to unpeople any part of the Earth. 1712 R. Blackmore Creation vii. 312 That costly Banquets..May crown thy Table,..Ransack the Hills,..The Lake unpeople, and despoil the Flood. 1760 Scots Mag. Feb. 89/2 Now, to unpeople ev'ry brook, The long-neglected mesh repairs. 1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iii. ii. 94 'Tis mine to sound the knell, and strike the blow, Which shall unpeople many palaces. 1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 328 Systematic ill government can do more to unpeople a land than..the Black Death. 1921 A. Huxley Crome Yellow ix. 79 Diseases have unpeopled half the globe. 2002 N. Grene Shakespeare's Serial Hist. Plays iv. 97 Shakespeare peoples his scenes casually, and as casually unpeoples them. 2. transitive. To deprive of the status of a people. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > [verb (transitive)] > divest of the status of a people unpeople1641 1641 O. Sedgwick Doubting Beleever v. 298 It is an unadvised folly in the suspension of Gods favour, to unsonne our selves, and unpeople our selves. a1714 M. Henry Expos. Hist. Bks. New Test. (1715) (Luke xiii. 6–9) sig. K4/2 God..justly determin'd to abandon them, and cut them off, to deprive them of their Priviledges, to unchurch and unpeople them. 1869 Banner of Truth (Hackensack, New Jersey) Sept. 45/1 Oh take heed that God doth not do to us as he did to Shiloh, unpeople us, unchurch us, and send a flying roll of curses against us. 2006 Times 10 June (Books section) 10/2 They thought being taught in Afrikaans, the language of a regime that had tried to ‘unpeople’ them, would cost them their last remaining freedom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1952v.a1533
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