All 3 Uses
personify
in
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- She was a direct embodiment and personification of the New Testament,—a living fact, to be accounted for, and to be accounted for in no other way than by its truth.†
Chpt 2.19
- The two gigantic negroes that now laid hold of Tom, with fiendish exultation in their faces, might have formed no unapt personification of powers of darkness.†
Chpt 2.33 *
- George turned, and, with one indignant blow, knocked Legree flat upon his face; and, as he stood over him, blazing with wrath and defiance, he would have formed no bad personification of his great namesake triumphing over the dragon.†
Chpt 2.41
Definitions:
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(1)
(personify as in: She personifies wisdom.) to be a perfect example of; or to embody an abstract quality
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(2)
(personify as in: She personifies her computer.) to represent a thing or idea as having human traits
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)