单词	personification
释义	personificationper‧son‧i‧fi‧ca‧tion /pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃən $ pərˌsɑː-/ noun Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES the poem's personification of the moon EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But I must be clearer what kind of personification this is. He is, you will also have gathered, the very personification of an arts education commercial. Hera becomes an impartial, giving and destroying, personification of nature at its most hidden. Its hooting was thought to presage death, for owls were the personification of restless spirits returning to earth to seek revenge. Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death, his own private Baron Samedi. Political integrity assumes a particularly deep personification of the community or state. The arch spandrels are decorated by figures of winged victory and personifications of rivers. We find other and even more important examples of working personification in the logic of individual political rights against the state. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► the personification of something Sarah is the personification of feminine innocence. Also shown are Leto and probably Ortygia, the personification of the island of Delos. Decibel is the personification of an abstract quality. Gallacher was the personification of scandal. In so far as Jupiter survived he was the personification of Providence or Destiny. Its hooting was thought to presage death, for owls were the personification of restless spirits returning to earth to seek revenge. Mait had trained him to be the personification of Death, his own private Baron Samedi. The heroine, Maryska, is the personification of female sexuality. Their twisted cunning movements were vividly contrasted with those she created for Elihu, the personification of Youth and Truth. Word family WORD FAMILYnounpersonpersonalitypersonapersonagethe personalspersonificationpersonneladjectivepersonal ≠ impersonalpersonalizedpersonableverbpersonalizepersonifyadverbpersonally ≠ impersonally 1the personification of something someone who is a perfect example of a quality because they have a lot of it:  He became the personification of the financial excess of the 1980s.2[countable, uncountable] the representation of a thing or a quality as a person, in literature or artpersonification of the personification of rivers in fifth-century art
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