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prosopopoeia

[proh-soh-puh-pee-uh] / proʊˌsoʊ pəˈpi ə /






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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)

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 Legge, James

The figure prosopopoeia is often but an impotent straining to impart poetic life; but the personification in in his motion is apt and effective.

From Essays Æsthetical by Calvert, George H. (George Henry)

These prosopopoeia of Wisdom personified are found in much older books.

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest