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Definition of Personifying
1. personify [v] - See also: personify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personifying
Literary usage of Personifying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Psychology by Wilhelm Max Wundt, Charles Hubbard Judd (1902)
"After consciousness reaches a more advanced stage, personifying apperception
begins to deal with the greater natural phenomena which act upon human life ..."
2. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1899)
"... the philosophic intellect from this all-personifying religious faith, and to
constitute a method of interpreting nature distinct from the spontaneous ..."
3. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and by John Smith (1830)
"A female, personifying Victory, bearing a chaplet of laurel over his head and a
palm branch in her hand, is flying behind him. The background displays a ..."
4. English Composition and Rhetoric by Alexander Bain (1888)
"There is a greater approach to the personifying effect in such lines as :— And
all the night 'tis my pillow white, As I sleep in the arms of the blast. ..."
5. The Empire of the Tsars and the Russians by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu, Zénaïde Alexeïevna Ragozin (1893)
"CHAPTER I. The Nobles and the Peasants, personifying the Two Russias, Appear Like
Two Different Nations—By its Origin and Manner of Recruiting, ..."
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