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Synonyms for personify

Grammar : Verb
Spell : per-son-uh-fahy
Phonetic Transcription : pərˈsɒn əˌfaɪ

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Définition of personify

Origin :
  • 1727 "to attribute personal form to things or abstractions" (especially as an artistic or literary technique), from person + -fy or from French personnifier (17c.), from personne. Meaning "to represent, embody" attested from 1806. Related: Personified; personifying.
  • verb represent some other being, character
Example sentences :
  • Like mythology, Greek philosophy has a tendency to personify ideas.
  • Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
  • This is only a convenience, because it seems necessary to personify.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
  • That man has a strong motive for my death, and to personify me afterwards.
  • Extract from : « Rattlin the Reefer » by Edward Howard
  • Now it is often convenient to personify Nature, but we must not be misled.
  • Extract from : « Parenthood and Race Culture » by Caleb Williams Saleeby
  • It is natural for us to personify and envelop in mystery the things that we do not understand.
  • Extract from : « Plain English » by Marian Wharton
  • There is in the human mind a tendency to personify abstractions.
  • Extract from : « On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo » by Paul Broca
  • His whole soul was absorbed in these adventures, and he appeared to personify the traveller.
  • Extract from : « Byron » by Richard Edgcumbe
  • A fugitive slave may be said to personify "life, liberty, and happiness."
  • Extract from : « The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales » by Bret Harte
  • It will be noticed that unless a force intrudes itself on him he does not personify it.
  • Extract from : « The Hearts of Men » by H. Fielding
  • There is innate in all men a tendency to personify the forces they cannot understand.
  • Extract from : « The Hearts of Men » by H. Fielding

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