personified

verbrepresent some other being, character

Word Origin & History

1727 "to attribute personal form to things or abstractions" (especially as an artistic or literary technique), from person + -fy or from French personnifier (17c.), from personne. Meaning "to represent, embody" attested from 1806. Related: Personified; personifying.

Example Sentences for personified

Doltimore is Self-conceit personified,—and Self-conceit is horn-eyed.

Break with this man, who personified authority and the King, he dared not.

He was worshiping not the animal-headed idols, but the attributes which they personified.

Indignation was personified in him, as he answered, "Them pigs has been in my corn."

Then she was personified as a woman and identified with a cow.

In his dream, he had personified the robot-confessor into the figure of a human judge.

Naturally the puzzles were personified—or the persons made into puzzles.

He personified in himself most of the clerical abuses of his age.

They are personified and a superhuman energy is attributed to them.

He is the living Word; in Him was personified what had been immemorial tradition.

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verb represent some other being, character

Antonyms for personified

More words related to personified

incarnate

adjective. in bodily form

represented

adjective. depicted