Per*son`i*fi*ca"tion (?), n. [Cf. F. personnification.] 1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.
C. Knight.
2. Rhet. A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopia; as, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice."
Milton.
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