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UK
/pɜːsˈɒnɪfˌaɪ/
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[ US /pɝˈsɑnəˌfaɪ/ ]
[ US /pɝˈsɑnəˌfaɪ/ ]
VERB
-
represent, as of a character on stage
Derek Jacobi was Hamlet - invest with or as with a body; give body to
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attribute human qualities to something
The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous
How To Use personify In A Sentence
- The personify the divine and magic powers worshipped by the people.
- Steve says: it is quote common to personify firms this way in the English language to refer to the owners and/or managers of thefirm. The Volokh Conspiracy » Anti-Wal-Mart Astroturf
- Movies are a good example of this, because in order to make a character exist in a film, you must necessarily personify and humanize that character.
- These players personify strength, resilience, and a certain kind of footballing integrity in sufficient quantity to overcome individual defects, such as Robson's drinking or Cantona's quixotic nature. Arsène Wenger's real blind spot is the Arsenal captaincy | Richard Williams
- Whether working with wood or stone, cement or iron: why do humans insist on imposing their face on even the most unwieldy things in the world, why do they name dead matter after their own flesh, personifying it as parts of the body? Herta Müller - Nobel Lecture
- She has chosen to personify this trait in several characters in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ although it is hard to find one character who portrays prejudice alone, throughout the novel.
- Instead, Romney has come to be defined as personifying the very worst kind of business executive. BusinessWeek.com -- Top News
- Her long, thick hair, which is rendered with rubbed graphite, expands as it falls like water to the image's edge; she might almost be personifying a natural force.
- The swirl of conversation takes us to the legendary Aussie tenacity that he himself used to personify on the cricket field.
- He could be set off by the merest interrogatory twitch, and had no compunction about personifying the ‘composer as intellectual’.