单词 | personifier |
释义 | personifiern. 1. A speaker or writer who uses personification. Also (with of): a writer who describes something in terms of people or personal events, etc., or who personifies something. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > personification > one who personifier1805 1805 Tucker's Light of Nature Pursued (ed. 2) VII. xxii. 34 As I am a great personifier, I have..addressed that virtue as a person. 1848 Southern Literary Messenger Mar. 145/1 Plutarch,..that personifier of history, who..vivifies the events and the characters of his heroes. 1900 R. J. Drummond Apost. Teaching vi. 235 He ventured on personification which became at times so vivid as to impose on the personifier himself. 1984 Representations 6 111 Blake, the great personifier of abstractions, saw very clearly what lay beneath Lessing's ‘first principles’. 2. A person who acts the part of someone else; an actor; an impersonator. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > role-playing > [noun] > one who personificator1834 personifier1835 role-player1944 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > actor > [noun] playera1400 game-player1533 comedy player1550 stage-player1561 actor1566 histrion?1566 comediant1568 representer1579 stager1580 presentera1586 histrio1589 stageman1589 gamester1596 player-man1596 Roscius1600 stagerite1602 theaterian1602 comedian1603 scenic1612 representant1622 play-actor1633 parta1643 histrionic1647 representator1653 artist1714 mummer1773 actor-manager1826 Thespian1827 impersonator1830 personifier1835 player-manager1895 thesp1962 luvvie1988 1835 Southern Literary Messenger Dec. 61/2 The personifier of Julia, of Nell, and of Lady Macbeth. 1838 Times 22 May 6/6 Captain Potter, enacted by Mr. C. Mathews, unites with the talents of a personifier those of the parleur eternel. 1871 G. Meredith Harry Richmond I. xiii. 205 Captain Welsh could not perceive in Temple the personifier of Alcibiades. 1922 J. S. Van Teslaar tr. W. Stekel Bi-sexual Love ii. 69 Among the transvestites (personifiers) we find the most pronounced examples of marked homosexuality. 1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 25 June 28/1 B. Fletcher; Personifier of G. B. Shaw. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1805 |
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