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Definition of Personify

1. Verb. Invest with or as with a body; give body to.

2. Verb. Represent, as of a character on stage. "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

3. Verb. Attribute human qualities to something. "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"

Definition of Personify

1. v. t. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being.

Definition of Personify

1. Verb. (transitive) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) To create a representation of an abstract quality in the form of a literary character. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Personify

1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Personify

personative personator personators personeities personeity personhood personhoods personifacation personifacations personification

personifications personified personifier personifiers personifies personify (current term) personifying personize personized personizes

personizing personlike personnel personnel carrier personnel casualty personnel department personnel loyalty personnel management personnel office personnel pouch

Literary usage of Personify

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Philosophy of History by Augustus Schade, Rudolf Rocholl (1899)
"If at all conscious of the responsibilities resting upon them by virtue of their position, they will In an exemplary mode personify loyalty to the ..."

2. Publication by Field Columbian Museum (1903)
"The sticks of wood thrown into the fire as fuel personify the victims struck or killed. Since they use their victims as fuel to give light in the ..."

3. A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages by Felix Flügel (1874)
"va to personify, to represent under an image, to symbolize. 8?erbil'bung, (w. ... personify ..."

4. Things Japanese: Being Notes on Various Subjects Connected with Japan for by Basil Hall Chamberlain (1908)
"... accounts of the impossible adventures of eight knights, who personify the eight cardinal virtues through the labyrinth of a hundred and six volumes ! ..."

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