1
[ verb ] represent, as of a character on stage

Synonyms

be embody

Examples

"Derek Jacobi was Hamlet"

Used in print

(Musical America, LXXXI:5...)

Your invitation to write_about Serge_Prokofieff to honor his 70_th Anniversary for the April issue of Sovietskaya_Muzyka is accepted with pleasure , because I admire the music of Prokofieff ; and with sober purpose , because the development of Prokofieff personifies , in many ways , the course of music in the Union_of_Soviet_Socialist_Republics .

2
[ verb ] invest with or as with a body; give body to

Synonyms

body

Used in print

(Arlin Turner, "William Faulkner, Southern Novelist"...)

If the barn-burner 's family produces a Flem_Snopes , who personifies commercialism and materialism in hyperbolic crassness , the Compson family produces a Jason_Compson 4 , .

(Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)

Eventually it became clear to me , partly with the aid of another schizophrenic patient who could point_out my condescension to me somewhat more directly , that this man , with his condescending , `` You 're welcome '' , was very accurately personifying an element of obnoxious condescension which had been present in my own demeanor , over these months , on each of these occasions when I had bid him good-bye with the consoling note , each time , that the healing Christ would be stooping_to dispense this succor to the poor suffered again on the morrow .

Related terms

embody body personification

3
[ verb ] attribute human qualities to something

Synonyms

personate

Examples

"The Greeks personated their gods ridiculous"

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