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
Then I was by him, &c. which he does not think a prosopopoeia, but spoken of a subsisting person.
From Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Possibly, however, the addressing those bodies may simply be an instance of prosopopoeia.
From The Shih King From the Sacred Books of the East Volume 3 by James Legge
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 P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
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 P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon
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