personification
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Personification: giving an inanimate or nonhuman object human characteristics to make it seem alive and relatable.
From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021
Drys, Consolidated, last week nominated the "Personification of Prohibition,"* Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, to take charge of enforcement following its projected transfer from the Treasury to the Department of Justice.
From Time Magazine Archive
Who is the contemporary Personification of the Spirit of America?
From Time Magazine Archive
Personification is a modified metaphor, assigning human attributes to objects, abstract ideas, or the lower animals.
From Composition-Rhetoric by Brooks, Stratton D.
Personification of God's attributes that man might commune with Him, 652-l.
From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert
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