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Definition of Personifies
1. personify [v] - See also: personify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personifies
Literary usage of Personifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"CHAPTER VIII GERMANY AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT Wilson personifies America to
Germany, ... In the case of Germany, President Wilson personifies America, ..."
2. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"CHAPTER VIII GERMANY AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT Wilson personifies America to
... In the case of Germany, President Wilson personifies America, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... which personifies the want of initiative and semi-fatalism of the Russian
character, .... personifies ..."
4. Shakespere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"The Problem for Criticism — In Biography—In History—Shakspere personifies English
Genius in his Century—Criticism has to demonstrate this. ..."
5. A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles by Alexander Jamieson (1838)
"Homer personifies prayers, and converts them into amiable beings, under the
feigned appellation of " Jove's Daughters," who are concerned for the happiness ..."
6. Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by JOHN ADDINGTON. SYMONDS (1884)
"The Problem for Criticism — In Biography—In History—Shakspere personifies English
Genius in his Century—Criticism has to demonstrate this. ..."
7. Notes and Queries on China and Japan (1867)
"Personifies martial heroines. The last four places in the above list of characters,
though representing female parts, are invariably filled by mtn in the ..."
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