Meaning & use
Personifying
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Representing an abstract quality, idea, or thing as having human characteristics, or embodying a quality to a notable degree.
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The poem describes Death as a patient traveler, personifying it as a quiet companion.
By personifying courage as a lion, the fable makes an abstract virtue easy to picture.
A note on using this word
The present-participle form of 'personify', frequently used in literary analysis to describe the rhetorical device of personification.
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