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personify |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Personify \Per*son"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Personified}; p. pr & vb n. {Personifying}.] [Person + -fy: cf F. personnifier.] 1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things --Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of to impersonate; as he personifies the law. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: personify v 1: invest with or as with a body [syn: {body}] 2: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: {embody}, {be}] 3: attribute human qualities to something "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous" [syn: {personate}]
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