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personify
Finally, Cusk seems to personify many of the contradictions of modern feminism.
From the guardian.co.uk
Female role models in Indian culture used to personify perfection, Singhania says.
From the businessweek.com
You personify patience, compassion, sensitivity, goodness, integrity and kindness.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
As Wintour came to personify the magazine's image, she and Vogue drew critics.
From the en.wikipedia.org
If the Ohio game is any indication, Wells'backups at tailback personify pedestrian.
From the washingtontimes.com
Parmenides, among other Greek philosophers, used the term to personify truth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
We learnt Not every Hollywood actor is pretending to personify sweetness and light.
From the smh.com.au
The pair personify the divergent ideological forces at work in Mexico today.
From the businessweek.com
With the fine French fries, this dish seemed to personify roadhouse food done right.
From the sacbee.com
- Body: invest with or as with a body; give body to
- Embody: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"
- Attribute human qualities to something; "The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"
- (personification) a person who represents an abstract quality; "she is the personification of optimism"
- (personification) the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- (Personifies) Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human characteristics to animals or non-living things, phenomena, material states and objects or abstract concepts. ...
- To be an example of; to have all the attributes of; To create a representation of an abstract quality in the form of a literary character
- (Personification) A form of metaphor in which language relating to human action, motivation, and emotion is used to refer to non-human agents or objects, or abstract concepts (e.g. The weather is smiling on us today; Love is blind.) See Metaphor, Figure of speech, Figurative language
- (personification) The impersonation or embodiment of some quality or abstraction; the attribution of human qualities to inanimate objects. Giving to inanimate objects or abstract ideas, human qualities or actions; making non-human things appear as human.
