Meaning & use
Personified
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Attributed human qualities to something non-human, or served as the perfect embodiment of a particular quality.
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In the fable, the fox is personified as cunning and deceitful.
Kindness personified, she never turned away anyone in need.
A note on using this word
Widely used in literature as a rhetorical device, giving abstract ideas or animals human characteristics.
Words with a similar meaning
embodiedhumanized
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