personize

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English

Alternative forms

personise

Etymology

From person +‎ -ize.

Verb

personize (third-person singular simple present personizes, present participle personizing, simple past and past participle personized)

  1. (archaic) To personify.
    • 1734, Jonathan Richardson, Explanatory Notes and Remarks on Milton's Paradise Lost:
      Milton has personized them.
    • 1778, Mr. Seward, “Preface”, in The Works of Mr. Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher:
      Fletcher, in personizing the passions and not drawing from real life []
    • 1762, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:
      If you would make Fortune your friend, or, to personise her no longer

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