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Meanings of personation in English
Acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture.
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Examples for "impersonation"
Examples for "impersonation"
1
Less of Tom Bradby's rather good impersonation of an American news anchor.
2
Another was brutally cruel to animals; another was the impersonation of laziness.
3
Wyclif was beyond his age; Luther was the impersonation of its passions.
4
Not even Malibran could equal her in the impersonation of this character.
5
So what's the difference between flavors and flat-out impersonation of another food?
Usage of personation in English
1
Such victories cannot be dismissed as mere products of intimidation and personation.
2
No man surely ever had so little talent for personation as Johnson.
3
This man, indeed, seemed the very personation of animal sensual life.
4
He smiled as he thought how sincerely Elfrida would detest such a personation.
5
Have you never read of cases of false personation, in newspapers and books?
6
How marvelously easy of accomplishment the act of personation had been!
7
This is the personation of the Navaho God of Harvest.
8
He called the several faculties, gods, in his beautiful personation.
9
I gather that your personation of this English baronet has been successfully carried through?
10
But note the subtlety of the personation and environment.
11
Yet, acting itself is delightful; nothing so entertains us as mimicry, the personation of character.
12
I played the intimate and ardent friend, and this was simply part of my personation.
13
The personation is conventional, rather than literal, in intent.
14
Probably there are still Old Conservatives who would prefer the personation of us by boys.'
15
Laura Keene thrilled them with the "Hunchback," and many another personation.
16
The surgeon actually started when I made my appearance, and acknowledged that the personation was exact.
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Translations for personation
Portuguese
Personation through the time