单词 | impersonating |
释义 | impersonatingn. rare before 19th cent. The action or an act of impersonating someone or something (in various senses of impersonate v.); (now esp.) the action or an act of pretending to be someone else, usually for the purpose of entertainment or fraud. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [noun] > of a character personage1534 personation1589 impersonating1609 personating1615 impersonification1787 impersonation1792 personification1814 impersonization1890 1609 H. Wotton Let. (modernized text) 22 June in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 458 The impersonating of his device in a blackamoor. 1860 Universalist Q. & Gen. Rev. Oct. 389 The objection is not that there is anything sinful in the impersonating of character. 1898 L. J. Meacham Lessons in Hypnotism ii. 90 A public presentation of hypnotic experiments always seems most wonderful to actors and those accustomed to seeing good impersonating. 1911 C. K. Steele Mansion of Myst. xxxi. 304 Watkins himself is willing to testify that he did the impersonating. 1983 Times 26 Aug. 3/8 He faces 23 charges including burglary and impersonating a police officer. 1994 Jewish Exponent (Philadelphia) (Electronic ed.) 4 Nov. ‘A group of us would get together and do these Al Jolson imitations.’ Was his the best? Keitel smiles. ‘I wasn't really that good at impersonating.’ 2015 P. Bouissac Semiotics Clowns & Clowning vi. 115 The stealing of identities and the impersonating of others are considered serious crimes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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