Antonyms for personation

Grammar : Noun

Spell : pur-suh-neyt

Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɜr səˌneɪt

Definition of personation

As in masquerade : noun disguise; social occasion for disguises
As in enactment : noun playacting

Example sentences :

No man surely 20 ever had so little talent for personation as Johnson.
Extract from : « Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson » by Thomas Babington Macaulay

As to the personation of votes, there should have been no allegation made.
Extract from : « Ralph the Heir » by Anthony Trollope

In the Seville auto of September 24, 1559, there were three cases of personation.
Extract from : « A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 4 » by Henry Charles Lea

And it was believed that in this behalf, they were having recourse to personation.
Extract from : « Perlycross » by R. D. Blackmore

They are bribery, treating, undue influence, and personation.
Extract from : « The Government of England (Vol. I) » by A. Lawrence Lowell

How marvelously easy of accomplishment the act of personation had been!
Extract from : « The New Magdalen » by Wilkie Collins

In such a personation, make-up becomes a serious part of art.
Extract from : « Plays, Acting and Music » by Arthur Symons

If they were in any way due to confederates, or to personation by the medium, such variations would not be likely to occur.
Extract from : « Materialized Apparitions » by Edward Augustus Brackett

To such a one, neither a confederate nor a personation by the medium can pass undetected.
Extract from : « Materialized Apparitions » by Edward Augustus Brackett

I can compare this personation to nothing so much as to that of a man haunted by a fiend.
Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. » by Various

Synonyms for personation

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