personified

personify | American Dictionary

personify
verb[ T ]
us/pərˈsɑn·əˌfɑɪ/
to be a person who is a perfect example of a thing or quality:
The senator personifies Washington, DC, to many people.
If a particular quality or idea is personified, it is represented in the form of a person:
In Greek myth, love is personified by the goddess Aphrodite.

Examples of personify

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The faculty of vision was represented in a visible emblem of a figure from myth who personified a conceptual image.
I personified that very star, tumbling and sizzling with bits of my being spread out over the green foliage.
Men have often personified language as a woman.
They are cartoon-like versions of the animal: personified, embellished and layered with cultural symbolism.
In emblem books, abstract concepts are personified by a person, typically a woman, whose costume and attributes are explained in an accompanying text.
I argue that, once language use is personified in this way, the value of language is naturalized in the attributes of persons.
Figures personifying ecclesia usually include a building or other architectural detail in the setting.
After all, personified abstractions are "never quite human"; they often represent subordinate quantities contained in the human mind.
The semantic implications of the term are made explicit by personifying narratives, some of which are apparently quite routinized.
Instead, they relied on age-old strategies either by prescribing safety rules and protocols or by personifying specific risks through stories or scenarios.
She personified the sun's heat and was also a protector of the dead.
They become who they are by becoming personified in the eyes of those around them.
Perhaps most important, he personified the passion for archaeology as a way of knowing, not just a recovery technique.
In one sense, he is accused of a night-time burglary ; he thus personifies the apocalyptic image, ' ' coming like a thief in the night.
Older people's heroines personified interdependence, and offered exemplars that encapsulated their own values, aspirations and expectations for later life.
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