Both Uses
personify
in
The Scarlet Pimpernel
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- The latter, rigid, erect and defiant, with one hand still upon her daughter's arm, seemed the very personification of unbending pride.†
Chpt 5
- But he had not moved; his massive figure looked the very personification of unbending pride, of fierce obstinacy.†
Chpt 16 *
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)