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Definition of Personations
1. personation [n] - See also: personation
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personations
Literary usage of Personations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists by Jesse Walter Fewkes (1903)
"... all the masked men who appeared that day were the two personations of a being
... identical with those of the same personations in the kiva performance. ..."
2. People from the Other World by Henry Steel Olcott (1875)
"CHAPTER XL ARE THEY Personations? HAVING divested our problem of the element of
confederacy, and made it clear that the forms presenting themselves in ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"... of the abuse of the forms of legitimate commercial transactions, and those
which consist of personations and so-called confidence games and tricks. ..."
4. The Dramatic Magazine (1829)
"Personations OF MACBETH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE DRAMATIC MAGAZINE. SIR,—The following
poetical fragment, I think, is worthy of insertion, as it gives a fair ..."
5. Seven Decades of the Union: The Humanities and Materialism by Henry Alexander Wise (1876)
"... and Tyler too—Personations of the Divisions of the Whig Party—Tyler's expressed
Opinions during the Canvass—Dismemberment of the Whig Party before ..."
6. Seven Decades of the Union: The Humanities and Materialism, Illustrated by a by Henry Alexander Wise (1881)
"... and Tyler too—Personations of the Division! of the Whig Party—Tyler's expressed
Opinions during the Canvass—Dis- ..."
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