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He was the personification of courage with all the illnesses he went through.
He spent a long time talking frankly to journalists and being the personification of charm itself.
Their emperor was meant to be the personification of the sun.

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personification | American Dictionary

personification
noun[ U ]
us/pərˌsɑn·ə·fɪˈkeɪ·ʃən/
literature
the description of an object or an idea as if it had human characteristics:
They paid tribute to the artist as "the personification of excellence."

Examples of personification

personification
He is usually thought to be a personification of evil, and in the minds of many he comes dangerously close to comedy in this regard.
Of course, personification is dangerous ground even when as stripped of indulgence and as credible as it is here.
Typically, futuristic or alien personification and representation by popular musicians attempt to circumvent this line of thinking.
It is also a process we can stand back from, recognizing, nevertheless, the perception of the phenomena that personification secures.
There are two especially interesting features about this particular personification.
In fact, identification of all urban personifications was, and is, often a challenge.
Law as integrity is the device by which this personification is to be achieved.
This reconciliation was explained earlier in terms of personification and attachment.
The central idea of the personification project is that it must be possible to see the political community as a moral agent.
If a legal system displays integrity, the political community becomes amenable to personification.
The system aims to provide an anthropomorphic and affective user interface through its personification of an embodied conversational agent.
The personification of which is the communitarian notion of 'the international community'.
Unlike other personifications, she was worshipped as a minor deity and did not dramatically change her appearance when representing different places.
It was argued that the ideal of integrity was closely related to the personification project.
These feelings of veneration and attachment, this complex of community, integrity, and personification, suggest a means of reconciling authority and autonomy.
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