personify
Etymology
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Etymology
From French personnifier; equivalent to
- IPA: /pə(ɹ)ˈsɒnɪfaɪ/
personify (personifies, present participle personifying; simple past and past participle personified)
- (transitive) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
- Antonyms: unpersonify
- Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.
- (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."
- French: personnifier
- German: personifizieren
- Italian: personificare
- Russian: персонифици́ровать
- Spanish: personificar
- French: personnifier
- German: personifizieren
- Russian: олицетворя́ть
- Spanish: personificar
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