Term Gallery logo

Meanings of personification in inglés

ruso
олицетворение
portugués
prosopéia
español
humanizacion
catalán
prosopopeia
Wikidata

Artistic or literary device in which an abstraction is represented by a person.

Related terms
humanizacion
portugués
personificação
catalán
prosopopeia

Representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature.

personificação
Synonyms
Examples for "prosopopeia"
Examples for "prosopopeia"
1
Nay, don't start, my dear fellow, and look the very Prosopopeia of Political Economy!
Vivian Grey
portugués
personificação
catalán
personificació

The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.

personificação
Usage of personification in inglés
1
The personification of the Moral Law in Almighty God; the higher Faith.
The Relations Between Religion and Science / Eight Lectures Prea...
2
By the boldest personification, he speaks continually in the name of God.
The Chief End of Man
3
This habit of personification grows in the Indian mind with advancing years.
The Log School-House on the Columbia
4
Rarely mentioned Celtic personification of the goddess of the woods and foliage.
A Wiccan Bible
5
He knew him to be the personification of craftiness, and of daring.
Green Fancy
6
Joshua, as the leader after Moses, is the personification of this understanding.
The Woman's Bible
7
Then the trick of personification seized upon Neil Bonner and mastered him.
The Faith of Men
8
He at first became perfectly motionless, and looked the personification of horror.
Captain Cook: His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries
9
Set, or Typhon, the brother of Osiris, was the personification of evil.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets
10
Why does their pantheon include Libertas, the goddess and personification of liberty.
A Wiccan Bible
11
It is Beatrice, Dante's beloved, now apotheosized in the personification of Revelation.
Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" / A Course of Lectures...
12
Nor any other personification of the tragedy that was even then unfolding.
Drood: a novel
13
She detests Brisbille, who is the personification of envy, malice and coarseness.
Light
14
Chinese Taoist personification of the male principle of the soul, the yang.
A Wiccan Bible
15
An Egyptian personification of the Earth and thus, god of the dead.
A Wiccan Bible
16
He is the personification of compassionate godliness, to which we should aspire.
The Guardian
About this term
More collocations
Translations for personification
Personification through the time
Personification across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common