personification
has definitions from the field of rhetoric
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[ noun ] a person who represents an abstract quality
Examples "she is the personification of optimism" Used in print (Gene Caesar, Rifle for Rent....)He had made himself the personification of the_Devil to the homesteaders . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (rhetoric) representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
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[ noun ] the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
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