personify

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per‧son‧i‧fy/pəˈsɒnəfaɪ, pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ $ pərˈsɑː-/ verb (past tense and past participle personified, present participle personifying, third person singular personifies) [TRANSITIVE]
[Word Family: noun: person, personality, persona, personage, the personals, personification, personnel; adjective: personal ≠ impersonal, personalized, personable; verb: personalize, personify; adverb: personally ≠ impersonally]
1. to have a lot of a particular quality or be a typical example of something:
　 ▪ Carter personifies the values of self-reliance and hard work.
kindness/generosity etc personified
　 ▪ Bertha was kindness personified.

2. to think of or represent a quality or thing as a person
personify something as somebody
　 ▪ Time is often personified as an old man.

verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Bertha will be remembered as kindness personified.
▪ The little boy seemed to personify the poverty and famine of his country.
▪ The new year is sometimes personified as a baby.
▪ To the school children, kindness and beauty were personified by their teacher Miss Appleby.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And Ariadne herself personifies the passively courageous, endlessly resourceful, and lovingly restorative element in every psyche.
▪ Can I really mean to personify the community in this vivid way?
▪ She was never separated from the actual earth and personified.
▪ The child of a black white mating, safe from both cystic fibrosis and sickle-cell disease, is hybrid vigour personified.
▪ The missing link personified is perhaps Zenabou's daughter Salamatu.
▪ The moon and the star are personified, the skyscraper is a human skeleton with bones and ribs.