From French personnifier; equivalent to or .

• IPA: /pə(ɹ)ˈsɒnɪfaɪ/

personify (personifies, present participle personifying; simple past and past participle personified)

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

   Antonyms: unpersonify

   Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.

2. (transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character or persona.

   Antonyms: unpersonify

   The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.

   • 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC ↗, page 73 ↗:

     If ever any of the girls had taken a fancy to personify their good genius, they would certainly have given to his image all they remembered of "Uncle Frank."

• personification

• French: personnifier
• German: personifizieren
• Italian: personificare
• Russian: персонифици́ровать
• Spanish: personificar

• French: personnifier
• German: personifizieren
• Russian: олицетворя́ть
• Spanish: personificar