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Definition of Personified
1. personify [v] - See also: personify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personified
Literary usage of Personified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Moralities from the Point of View of Allegory by William Roy Mackenzie (1914)
"In both of them Man appears in person, and the struggle takes the form of repeated
attempts on the part of the personified virtues and vices to obtain his ..."
2. A Historical French Grammar by Arsène Darmesteter (1902)
"NAMES OF THINGS personified.—Things personified are represented as male or female
beings ... To the class of proper names of persons, or things personified, ..."
3. The Theological and Literary Journal (1861)
"The objects which are personified are not used as substitutes of men, but are
summoned to exert the acts assigned to them, either as spectators of their ..."
4. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England, from by John Campbell Campbell (1847)
"HAREFIELD was personified, and, attired as a disconsolate widow in sables, thus
bade the Queen farewell, " Sweete Majestic ! " Be pleased to looke upon a ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... as a half-naked youth seated upon a sarcophagus, and prayer was also personified.
8. The Middle Ag-es: In the Middle Ages there was a great inrush of ..."
6. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"... not being the Law which he makes, but the (personified) principle of
legislation (utility or other) which determines him to make it. ..."
7. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"... also personified the Cambridge culture struggling against the dry scholastic
stupidity of the college authorities. The poetry in this sense represents a ..."
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