prosopopoeia
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Over its many seasons of courtship Harrison has come to be the prosopopoeia of all the nation's unease over changing demographics.
From Salon ● Feb. 20, 2021
The same thing happened to the Romans, when military success took them out of Italy,—a thing which the author of the prosopopoeia of Fabricius could not explain.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
Honest Pantagruel, not understanding the mystery, asked him, by way of interrogatory, what he did intend to personate in that new-fangled prosopopoeia.
From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by Motteux, Peter Anthony
Yet in nearly every literature death has been personified, while no kindred prosopopoeia of life is anywhere to be found.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
And do you take seriously the city of Salente and the prosopopoeia of Fabricius?
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
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