Word family noun person personality persona personage the personals personification personnel adjective personal ≠ impersonal personalized personable verb personalize personify adverb personally ≠ impersonally
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpersonifyper‧son‧i‧fy /pəˈsɒnɪfaɪ $ pərˈsɑː-/ verb (personified, personifying, personifies) [transitive] 1 TYPICALto 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 SIGN/SYMBOLto think of or represent a quality or thing as a personpersonify something as somebody Time is often personified as an old man.→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpus
personify• Bertha will be remembered as kindness personified.• 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 new year is sometimes personified as a baby.• To the school children, kindness and beauty were personified by their teacher Miss Appleby.• The missing link personified is perhaps Zenabou's daughter Salamatu.• Can I really mean to personify the community in this vivid way?• And Ariadne herself personifies the passively courageous, endlessly resourceful, and lovingly restorative element in every psyche.• The little boy seemed to personify the poverty and famine of his country.• The moon and the star are personified, the skyscraper is a human skeleton with bones and ribs. 