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Date: 1800-1900
Language: Latin
Origin: 'person not acceptable'

persona non grata

 noun
     
persona non gra‧ta
formalPGC

be/become/be declared persona non grata

to be not welcome in a particular place because of something that you have done - used especially when a foreign government orders you to go home
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