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Webster 1913 Edition

Personification

Per-sonˊi-fi-ca′tion

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Noun.
[Cf. F.
personnification
.]
1.
The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
C. Knight.
2.
(Rhet.)
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopœia;
as, the floods clap their hands
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“Confusion heards his voice.”
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Personification

PERSONIFICA'TION

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Noun.
[from personify.] The giving to an inanimate being the figure or the sentiments and language of a rational being; prosopopoeia; as, 'confusion heard his voice.'

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