Definition of Personifies

1. Verb. (third-person singular of personify) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Personifies

1. personify [v] - See also: personify

Lexicographical Neighbors of Personifies

personations
personative
personator
personators
personeities
personeity
personhood
personhoods
personifacation
personifacations
personification
personifications
personified
personifier
personifiers
personifies
personify
personifying
personize
personized
personizes
personizing
personlike
personnel
personnel carrier
personnel casualty
personnel department
personnel loyalty
personnel management
personnel office

Literary usage of Personifies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"CHAPTER VIII GERMANY AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT Wilson personifies America to Germany, ... In the case of Germany, President Wilson personifies America, ..."

2. Inside the German Empire in the Third Year of the War by Herbert Bayard Swope (1917)
"CHAPTER VIII GERMANY AND THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT Wilson personifies America to ... In the case of Germany, President Wilson personifies America, ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... which personifies the want of initiative and semi-fatalism of the Russian character, .... personifies ..."

4. Shakespere's Predecessors in the English Drama by John Addington Symonds (1884)
"The Problem for Criticism — In Biography—In History—Shakspere personifies English Genius in his Century—Criticism has to demonstrate this. ..."

5. A Grammar of Rhetoric, and Polite Literature: Comprehending the Principles by Alexander Jamieson (1838)
"Homer personifies prayers, and converts them into amiable beings, under the feigned appellation of " Jove's Daughters," who are concerned for the happiness ..."

6. Shakspere's predecessors in the English drama by JOHN ADDINGTON. SYMONDS (1884)
"The Problem for Criticism — In Biography—In History—Shakspere personifies English Genius in his Century—Criticism has to demonstrate this. ..."

7. Notes and Queries on China and Japan (1867)
"Personifies martial heroines. The last four places in the above list of characters, though representing female parts, are invariably filled by mtn in the ..."

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