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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

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

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

From The Life of Jesus by Renan, Ernest

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)

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)




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