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- noun grammar A variety of the
third person sometimes used forindefinite referents , such as one in one shouldn't do that. - noun linguistics
grammatical person in some languages distinct fromfirst ,second , andthird persons , semantically translated by one of them in English. For example, inOjibwe , it is a variety of thethird person used for a secondary, orobviative , third person.
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