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Meanings of personification in English
Artistic or literary device in which an abstraction is represented by a person.
Related terms
Portuguese
personificação Catalan
prosopopeia Portuguese
personificação Catalan
personificació Usage of personification in English
1
The personification of the Moral Law in Almighty God; the higher Faith.
2
By the boldest personification, he speaks continually in the name of God.
3
This habit of personification grows in the Indian mind with advancing years.
4
Rarely mentioned Celtic personification of the goddess of the woods and foliage.
5
He knew him to be the personification of craftiness, and of daring.
6
Joshua, as the leader after Moses, is the personification of this understanding.
7
Then the trick of personification seized upon Neil Bonner and mastered him.
8
He at first became perfectly motionless, and looked the personification of horror.
9
Set, or Typhon, the brother of Osiris, was the personification of evil.
10
Why does their pantheon include Libertas, the goddess and personification of liberty.
11
It is Beatrice, Dante's beloved, now apotheosized in the personification of Revelation.
12
Nor any other personification of the tragedy that was even then unfolding.
13
She detests Brisbille, who is the personification of envy, malice and coarseness.
14
Chinese Taoist personification of the male principle of the soul, the yang.
15
An Egyptian personification of the Earth and thus, god of the dead.
16
He is the personification of compassionate godliness, to which we should aspire.
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Personification through the time
Personification across language varieties
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