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Значения термина prosopopoeia на английском

португальский
personificação
каталонский
prosopopeia

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

        personificação
        Синонимы
        Examples for "personification"
        Examples for "personification"
        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
        Использование термина prosopopoeia на английском
        1
        Possibly, however, the addressing those bodies may simply be an instance of prosopopoeia.
        The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry / From the Sacred Books of the...
        2
        And do you take seriously the city of Salente and the prosopopoeia of Fabricius?
        System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
        3
        Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.
        The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
        4
        The prosopopoeia which is adopted by Plato in the Protagoras and other dialogues is repeated until we grow weary of it.
        Laws
        5
        Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.
        Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3
        6
        Diderot perceived it; I told him the cause, and read to him the prosopopoeia of Fabricius, written with a pencil under a tree.
        The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 08
        7
        One is reminded here of Pascal's famous prosopopoeia: I know not who has put me into the world, nor what the world is, nor myself.
        Saint Augustin
        8
        And this, when one addresses inanimate things, is a figure which is called by rhetoricians, Prosopopoeia, and the Poets often use it.
        The Banquet (Il Convito)
        Translations for prosopopoeia
        португальский
        personificaçãoprosopopeia
        каталонский
        prosopopeiapersonificació
        Prosopopoeia через время