personification (person"ifikashon)

[= F. personnification = Sp. personificacion = Pg. personificação = It. person if i caz i one, The sage, the satirist, and the seer. veiled his head in allegory; he published no other names than those of the virtues and the vices; and, to avoid personality, he contented himself with personification. 1. D'Israeli , Amen. of Lit., I. 217. [ per fication; characterized by a tendency to personification or the act of personifying. person if i cat or (per-son'i-fi-kā-tor), n. sonificat ( ion ) +-or1.] One who is given to personifying qualities or inanimate things; a personifier. Southey.