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单词 personifier
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personifiern.

Brit. /pəˈsɒnᵻfʌɪə/, U.S. /pərˈsɑnəˌfaɪ(ə)r/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: personify v., -er suffix1.
Etymology: < personify v. + -er suffix1.
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).
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