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Synonyms for persona

Grammar : Noun
Spell : per-soh-nuh
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈsoʊ nə

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Définition of persona

Origin :
  • 1917, "outward or social personality," a Jungian psychology term, from Latin persona "person" (see person). Used earlier (1909) by Ezra Pound in the sense "literary character representing voice of the author." Persona grata is Late Latin, literally "an acceptable person," originally applied to diplomatic representatives acceptable to the governments to which they were sent; hence also persona non grata (plural personæ non gratæ).
  • noun character
Example sentences :
  • He is, therefore, persona gratissima at the High Court of Reason.
  • Extract from : « Mountain Meditations » by L. Lind-af-Hageby
  • He speaks of the benefit of joinder as derived from the persona of the grantor.
  • Extract from : « The Common Law » by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • I may have been persona non grata, but, if so, she did not express her feeling.
  • Extract from : « Birds of the Rockies » by Leander Sylvester Keyser
  • And he must find out whether the Crawleighs regarded him as a persona grata.
  • Extract from : « Lady Lilith » by Stephen McKenna
  • Harvey attended the King to Oxford where he was at once received as a persona grata.
  • Extract from : « William Harvey » by D'Arcy Powers
  • But would the heretic have been persona grata to the later time?
  • Extract from : « The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) » by Henry Osborn Taylor
  • Unfortunately, the Girl, a persona non grata, cannot visit me.
  • Extract from : « Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist » by Alexander Berkman
  • It is remarkable that persona should so often be confounded with individual.
  • Extract from : « Christian Sects in the Nineteenth Century » by Caroline Frances Cornwallis
  • He is persona in concreto (to borrow the solecism of a modern statesman).
  • Extract from : « Character Writings of the 17th Century » by Various
  • The censor is not for the moment a persona grata, but let us give him his due.
  • Extract from : « Ancient Art and Ritual » by Jane Ellen Harrison

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