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I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.
Will Self

Meaning of "personify" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERSONIFY

personify  [pɜːˈsɒnɪˌfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERSONIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Personify is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb personify in English.

WHAT DOES PERSONIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

personify

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism, or personification, is attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being. Examples include depicting deities with human form and ascribing human emotions or motives to forces of nature, such as hurricanes or earthquakes. Anthropomorphism has ancient roots as a literary device in storytelling, and also in art. Most cultures have traditional fables with anthropomorphised animals, which can stand or talk like humans, as characters. The word anthropomorphism was first used in the mid-1700s. The word derives from the Greek ἄνθρωπος, "human", and μορφή, "shape" or "form".

Definition of personify in the English dictionary

The first definition of personify in the dictionary is to attribute human characteristics to. Other definition of personify is to represent in human or animal form. Personify is also to represent, as in art or literature.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PERSONIFY

PRESENT

Present
I personify
you personify
he/she/it personifies
we personify
you personify
they personify
Present continuous
I am personifying
you are personifying
he/she/it is personifying
we are personifying
you are personifying
they are personifying
Present perfect
I have personified
you have personified
he/she/it has personified
we have personified
you have personified
they have personified
Present perfect continuous
I have been personifying
you have been personifying
he/she/it has been personifying
we have been personifying
you have been personifying
they have been personifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I personified
you personified
he/she/it personified
we personified
you personified
they personified
Past continuous
I was personifying
you were personifying
he/she/it was personifying
we were personifying
you were personifying
they were personifying
Past perfect
I had personified
you had personified
he/she/it had personified
we had personified
you had personified
they had personified
Past perfect continuous
I had been personifying
you had been personifying
he/she/it had been personifying
we had been personifying
you had been personifying
they had been personifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will personify
you will personify
he/she/it will personify
we will personify
you will personify
they will personify
Future continuous
I will be personifying
you will be personifying
he/she/it will be personifying
we will be personifying
you will be personifying
they will be personifying
Future perfect
I will have personified
you will have personified
he/she/it will have personified
we will have personified
you will have personified
they will have personified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been personifying
you will have been personifying
he/she/it will have been personifying
we will have been personifying
you will have been personifying
they will have been personifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would personify
you would personify
he/she/it would personify
we would personify
you would personify
they would personify
Conditional continuous
I would be personifying
you would be personifying
he/she/it would be personifying
we would be personifying
you would be personifying
they would be personifying
Conditional perfect
I would have personify
you would have personify
he/she/it would have personify
we would have personify
you would have personify
they would have personify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been personifying
you would have been personifying
he/she/it would have been personifying
we would have been personifying
you would have been personifying
they would have been personifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you personify
we let´s personify
you personify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to personify
Past participle
personified
Present Participle
personifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERSONIFY


ammonify
əˈmɒnɪˌfaɪ
carnify
ˈkɑːnɪˌfaɪ
cockneyfy
ˈkɒknɪˌfaɪ
consignify
kɒnˈsɪɡnɪˌfaɪ
cornify
ˈkɔːnɪˌfaɪ
dignify
ˈdɪɡnɪˌfaɪ
divinify
dɪˈvɪnɪˌfaɪ
indemnify
ɪnˈdɛmnɪˌfaɪ
lignify
ˈlɪɡnɪˌfaɪ
magnify
ˈmæɡnɪˌfaɪ
minify
ˈmɪnɪˌfaɪ
opsonify
ɒpˈsɒnɪˌfaɪ
opsonize
ɒpˈsɒnɪˌfaɪ
presignify
priːˈsɪɡnɪˌfaɪ
reunify
riːˈjuːnɪˌfaɪ
saponify
səˈpɒnɪˌfaɪ
signify
ˈsɪɡnɪˌfaɪ
solemnify
səˈlɛmnɪˌfaɪ
UniFi
ˈjuːnɪˌfaɪ
unify
ˈjuːnɪˌfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERSONIFY

personate
personation
personative
personator
personhood
personifiable
personification
personified
personifier
personifies
personize
personned
personnel
personnel agency
personnel carrier
personnel department
personnel management
personnel manager
personnel officer
personpower

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERSONIFY

certify
clarify
cocknify
damnify
identify
indignify
justify
lenify
modify
munify
notify
omnify
qualify
resinify
sanify
simplify
specify
undignify
verify
vinify

Synonyms and antonyms of personify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «PERSONIFY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «personify» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of personify

Translation of «personify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PERSONIFY

Find out the translation of personify to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of personify from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «personify» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

是…的化身
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

encarnar
570 millions of speakers

English

personify
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जिस्मानी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تجسيد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

олицетворяют
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

personificar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ব্যক্তিত্ব দান করা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

personnifier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mempersonifikasikan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

personifizieren
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

象徴する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

~의 화신이 되다
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Personify
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhân cách hóa
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஆளுமையாகக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

व्यक्तिमत्व
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

canlandırmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

personificare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

uosabiać
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

уособлюють
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

personifica
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προσωποποιούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

verpersoonlijken
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

personify
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

personifiserer
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of personify

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSONIFY»

The term «personify» is regularly used and occupies the 104.672 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PERSONIFY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about personify

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QUOTES WITH «PERSONIFY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word personify.
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Will Self
I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERSONIFY»

Discover the use of personify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to personify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Passions Personify'd,: In Familiar Fables..
In Familiar Fables.. Herbert Lawrence. She chanc'd to meet with Dissipation, And held with him this Conversation. " Pray, Sir, says she, (with Look severe) " What do you mean, to domineer, " And make your Brags in ev'ry Place, " That I shall no  ...
Herbert Lawrence, 1773
2
Computerworld
One of the original beta testers of Personify Essentials, Virtual Vineyards has been using the product for about a year and a half, according to Ainsworth. Why lt Bought the Tool “If someone's leaving your store without buying, you want to run  ...
3
After God: The Future of Religion
Thus the Muses "personify?" the various arts, tutelary spirits also "personify" the places and nations they protect, totems "personify" the various animat and plant kinds, monumental maidens "personify" the Virtues, demons "personify" SOULS,  ...
Don Cupitt, 1997
4
The Leadership Challenge
To Set the Example you need to • Personify the shared values • Teach others to model the values In practicing these essentials leaders become role models for what the whole team (the group, the organization, or the company) stands for, and ...
James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner, 2010
5
Rhetorical Studies of National Political Debates, 1960-1992
Finally, debaters will attempt to positively influence their images by suggesting that they personify characteristics or roles that the public seeks in the president. As Berquist notes, Jimmy Carter built his entire 1976 campaign around ...
Robert V. Friedenberg, 1994
6
Sermons on various subjects and occasions. With a brief ...
By an involuntary impulse we personify all that is dear or sacred to us. We personify Wisdom. We personify Justice. The sailor personifies the ship which is his pride and his home, with its planks between him and death. The Jew personified ...
James Shergold Boone, 1853
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A Dream in the World: Poetics of Soul in Two Women, Modern ...
Archetypal psychologist James Hillman characterizes the psyche's tendency to personify as an “epistemology of the heart, a thought mode of feeling,” wrongly judged to be “inferior, archaic, or appropriate only to those allowed emotive speech ...
Robin van Lõben Sels, 2004
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Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering
To personify means to think of an inanimate object or abstraction as having the thoughts and feelings of a living person. Justice is a common example: we depict the abstraction “justice” as a female figure— Justice—blindfolded and holding a ...
James Christian, 2008
9
African Religions & Philosophy
A few societies personify them as spirits; some like the Azande, Bambuti and Chagga consider them to be God's children; and others, like the Bavenda, Gikuyu and Shona take them as God's manifestations. The position of the Pleiades is ...
John S. Mbiti, 1990
10
Christian Faith
These considerations make it understandable why many philosophers and theologians are inclined to deny personality to God; all the more so when we think of the propensity of children to personify whatever they do not understand — which ...
Hendrikus Berkhof, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERSONIFY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term personify is used in the context of the following news items.
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Better or worse: Bengals defensive line
... hurdles, failure to plug vacant production, and suffocating loyalty to older veterans who personify character, even if it threatens liabilities. «Cincy Jungle, Jul 15»
2
Honest Abe Foxman was exemplary in leading the Anti-Defamation …
Who Foxman is, his own story, helps explain how he came to personify Jewish strength and forgiveness. The only child of Polish Jews, ... «New York Daily News, Jul 15»
3
It felt good to be African this week
You personify African excellence and pride. Keep on sparkling and leading – we are following right behind you! Blame it on my Afro-optimism ... «Independent Online, Jul 15»
4
Review of The Khukri Braves: Personifying bravery in battles
... empires, the consequent shifting of boundaries, and the emergence of the multi-ethnic Indian nation, continues to personify bravery in battle. «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
5
Obama Stopped Being a Christian American Upon Election to POTUS
In fact, one could say that the word chutzpah was conceived looking for an Obama to personify it. There is so much unbelievability surrounding ... «Canada Free Press, Jul 15»
6
Grace Mugabe - From Chivu to Gracelands
Yet some embody good and use their positions to advocate progressive changes and philanthropic causes, while others personify greed and ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
7
Top Trainer, Few Dollars More impress
1600m: Shivalik Showers (Merchant), Danse Debonaire (J.Chinoy), Starry Brook (Kamlesh) and Personify (S.S. Rathore) 1-44, 600/42. Won by: ... «The Hindu, Jul 15»
8
Book tells of clash of Sitting Bull, Indian agent
... to assume the same position and personify government policy. The struggle between him and Sitting Bull played out on that stage until Sitting ... «Bismarck Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Pacete: When Philippine politics was prima donna
In our next meeting we should personify the politician of our choice. I did a Manglapus and I got 98 percent for that. Manglapus inspired me with ... «Sun.Star, Jul 15»
10
Are we doing it wrong?: 4 things Americans are nailing that Kiwis …
Where Kiwis have perfected "laid back and chilled" to personify happiness, American's have mastered in-your-face friendliness in a way that ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»

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