personifying
present participle ofpersonify
personify
verb[T]
uk/pəˈsɒn.ɪ.faɪ/us/pɚˈsɑː.nə.faɪ/to be aperfectexampleof something:
Theseloutspersonify all that iswrongwithoursocietytoday.
literaturespecialized
totreatsomething as if it were in theformof ahumanbeing:
InGreekmyth,loveis personified by thegoddessAphrodite.
Typifying, illustrating and exemplifying
- analogy
- archetypal
- archetypically
- besomeoneall overidiom
- betoken
- genre
- instantiate
- mirror
- Mr
- Mrs
- on-brand
- sum
- summation
- symbolic
- symbolize
- symptomatic
- tantamount
- territory
- token
- translate
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Describing & telling stories
Examplesofpersonifying
personifying
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
So much debate goes on without "personifying" the fetus, especially in the first trimester; yet twins probably do possess a unique perspective.
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Figurespersonifyingecclesia usually include a building or other architectural detail in the setting.
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The semantic implications of the term are made explicit bypersonifyingnarratives, some of which are apparently quite routinized.
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Instead, they relied on age-old strategies either by prescribing safety rules and protocols or bypersonifyingspecific risks through stories or scenarios.
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The aesthetics of blues phrasing involves an idea of 'personifying' each and every note.
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Thispersonifyingof the corporation extends to its having needs, wishes, rights and even feelings.
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Among the characteristics of person he had noted that such entities are conscious, self-directed, responsible free agents, capable ofpersonifyingattitudes and relationships with other entities of this sort.
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And within this framework you have taken on the important task ofpersonifyingthe joint effort to put in place a foreign and security policy which concerns us all.
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On the bottom are female figures possiblypersonifyingthe seasons.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The book portrays them aspersonifyingan ideal of statesmanship marked by non-partisanship, pragmatic internationalism, and aversion to ideological fervor.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.One of these warriors is a manpersonifyingthe rain deity.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.This is why the poem begins with the laughter and happiness of nature in the first stanza,personifyingthe wood, hills, and air.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.They are related to planets in astrological terms and portrayed with broad-brush satire, eachpersonifyingthe worst aspects of his or her planet's supposed characteristics.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Ending an adjective with -mi (-) has the effect ofpersonifyingthe adjective, thereby turning the word into a noun.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The griffins,personifyingvigilance, stand prepared to meet all threats.
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- turn the corner
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- turn the other cheek
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- turn the tables on sb
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- turn to someone/something
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