Personified
[pə'sɔnə,faɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Personify
Checker: Phyllis
Examples
- D?dalus (= cunning artificer) was a sort of personified summary of mechanical skill. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Because rationality itself is a wilful exercise one hears Hymns to Reason and sees it personified as an extremely dignified goddess. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- In our modern languages they are named after the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, and Saturn, which from the remotest times were personified and worshiped. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- But if that will is so weak and timid that a great evil like child labor persists to our shame we turn the responsibility over to the devil personified as a special interest. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Checker: Phyllis