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Meanings of personation in English

Portuguese
caracterização
Catalan
interpretació
Spanish
interpretación

Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture.

        caracterização
        Portuguese
        imitação
        Catalan
        imitació

        Imitating the mannerisms of another person.

              imitação
              Usage of personation in English
              1
              Such victories cannot be dismissed as mere products of intimidation and personation.
              The Irish Times
              2
              No man surely ever had so little talent for personation as Johnson.
              Famous Reviews, Selected and Edited with Introductory Notes by R...
              3
              This man, indeed, seemed the very personation of animal sensual life.
              Zanoni
              4
              He smiled as he thought how sincerely Elfrida would detest such a personation.
              A Daughter of To-Day
              5
              Have you never read of cases of false personation, in newspapers and books?
              The New Magdalen
              6
              How marvelously easy of accomplishment the act of personation had been!
              The New Magdalen
              7
              This is the personation of the Navaho God of Harvest.
              The North American Indian, Vol. 1
              8
              He called the several faculties, gods, in his beautiful personation.
              Representative Men: Seven Lectures
              9
              I gather that your personation of this English baronet has been successfully carried through?
              The Great Impersonation
              10
              But note the subtlety of the personation and environment.
              Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known Engl...
              11
              Yet, acting itself is delightful; nothing so entertains us as mimicry, the personation of character.
              The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
              12
              I played the intimate and ardent friend, and this was simply part of my personation.
              The Rise of David Levinsky
              13
              The personation is conventional, rather than literal, in intent.
              The North American Indian, Vol. 1
              14
              Probably there are still Old Conservatives who would prefer the personation of us by boys.'
              Diana of the Crossways — Volume 4
              15
              Laura Keene thrilled them with the "Hunchback," and many another personation.
              A Little Girl of Long Ago; Or, Hannah Ann / A Sequel to a Little...
              16
              The surgeon actually started when I made my appearance, and acknowledged that the personation was exact.
              Percival Keene
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