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   personification

   /pəˌsɒnɪfɪˈkeɪʃn/

   noun

   • 1. the attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form: "the book provides a sustained account of how literary personification works"
   • 2. a figure intended to represent an abstract quality: "the knight is accompanied by two feminine personifications of vice"
   • ▪ a person or thing regarded as embodying a quality, concept, etc.: "he was the very personification of British pluck and diplomacy"

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