PERSONIFICATION in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PERSONIFICATION, such as:
1. The personification of evil as a devil is a feature of medieval painting.
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Meanings and Examples of PERSONIFICATION
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personification
n. representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature
n. a person who represents an abstract quality
Classic Sentence:
1 Count Ilya Rostov with the other members of the committee sat facing Bagration and, as the very personification of Moscow hospitality, did the honors to the prince.
2 But to Pierre he always remained what he had seemed that first night: an unfathomable, rounded, eternal personification of the spirit of simplicity and truth.
3 The two gigantic negroes that now laid hold of Tom, with fiendish exultation in their faces, might have formed no unapt personification of powers of darkness.
4 The lamp beat upon his face, and so intent was it and so still that it might have been that of a clear-cut classical statue, a personification of alertness and expectation.
5 I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
6 The eight of clubs, for instance, represented a huge tree bearing eight enormous trefoil leaves, a sort of fantastic personification of the forest.
Example Sentence:
1 The personification of evil as a devil is a feature of medieval painting.