noun
definition
The state or period of being a person.
definition
The status of being considered as a person.
example
A majority of the present world's peoples delay the conferral of personhood (to children).
Examples of personhood in a Sentence
The healthy toddler years are characterized by the struggle for autonomy as the child develops a sense of personhood separate from the parent.
The ethical issues surrounding therapeutic cloning are similar in some ways to the abortion debate; that is when does personhood start?
We are caught up in an awesome struggle over the character of human personhood.
We have a group starting here in San Luis Obispo to revoke corporate personhood on a local level.
In the Judaic tradition, however, in which the Godhead was imagined as gloriously veiled, nakedness was more likely to signify degradation, humiliation, or loss of personhood.
For Harris the ability to value life and express preferences in the context of a future defines personhood.
Levertov often describes personhood as a contest between such contraries.
Moreover, we have replaced heroes with celebrities as a result of major changes in the way we understand personhood and community.
Some, however, argue for abortion on the grounds that the fetus has not (yet) achieved personhood.
The Word, therefore, is all that God is, including His full personhood.
Nor is it obvious why the judges should conclude that legal personhood only starts at upwards of 24 weeks.
Tho by his own distinctive personhood he perfectly mirrors to us what the Father is like.
It is the connections between objects that allow some unity to distributed personhood.