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personify
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personify as in:  She personifies wisdom.

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  • There are texts from Maya, who saw me on the news and thinks I'm dope personified...  (source)
    personified = represented perfectly
  • He finally decided that children liked dinosaurs because these giant creatures personified the uncontrollable force of looming authority.  (source)
    personified = were a perfect example of
  • Gail's life is the American Dream personified: a beautiful house, three great kids, a happy marriage, and a saintly demeanor.  (source)
    personified = demonstrated as a perfect example
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  • He was wisdom personified, his manner so serious and formal that Tally found herself wishing she had dressed up.  (source)
    personified = demonstrated in a perfect example
  • With his gentle demeanor, Gandhi seemed the very personification of nonviolence, and he insisted that the campaign be run along identical lines to that of his father's in India.  (source)
    personification = perfect example
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
  • We went through the main hall, four-armed Amaat looming, the air still smelling of incense and the heap of flowers at the god's feet and knees, back to a tiny chapel tucked into a corner, dedicated to an old and now-obscure provincial god, one of those personifications of abstract concepts so many pantheons hold, in this case a deification of legitimate political authority.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
  • — ...But these demons can hardly be distinguished from the diseases they personify — — — and many of the diseases sound, to modern ears, as though they must be psychosomatic.'†  (source)
  • Oskar Schindler personifies that definition.†  (source)
    personifies = is a perfect example of
  • And as I moved toward the center of the circle I felt like I was literally personifying the emotion.†  (source)
  • He's goodness personified.  (source)
    personified = demonstrated as a perfect example
  • Sophia is a personification of Papa's wisdom.†  (source)
  • The wives and daughters of the Moon Man are the personifications and precipitators of his destiny.†  (source)
  • This was the ponderous challenge—and the incomparable excitement—of reaching a mass public in an age before television: a great roving road show that would personify the war's realities and deliver them to Americans' home precincts.†  (source)
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