She personifies the power of the spring season, the power of the earth to grow and yield grain, motherhood and all the attributes and affinities which spring therefrom.
One of her names is Nesert, flame, in which she personifies the destroying element.
The fervid orator personifies that empire, that false mistress which has lured Athens, then Sparta, then Athens once more, to the verge of destruction.
Hagar in turn personifies a people found to the east of Gilead (1 Chron.
The childhood of philosophy (whose genius is unity) personifies the universe.
The child personifies the stone that hurts him, and his first impulse is to resent the injury as though he imagined it to be endowed with consciousness, and to be acting with design.
He personifiesthe images, ideas, and conceptions by transforming them into living subjects, just as he had originally personified cosmic objects and phenomena.
Again, we have plainly shown that man, by the intrinsic reduplication of his psychical faculty, spontaneously retains and personifies the inward phantasm generated by such a projection of special natural objects on his perception.
We have seen that the custom of drenching a leaf-clad person (who undoubtedly personifies vegetation) with water is still resorted to in Europe for the express purpose of producing rain.
Certainly the custom of drenching with water a leaf-clad person, who undoubtedly personifies vegetation, is still resorted to in Europe for the express purpose of producing rain.
The stork personifies the funereal sky, the sky when the celestial hero, the sun, is dead.
The starling is the representative of the ordinary court-poets; while the nightingale personifies Smil himself and those poets who were enthusiastic for the Bohemian nation.
Mina thus being a Slav, it was possible to celebrate her as the "Daughter of Slava", a goddess who personifies the Slavic race.
The cult of a god, or more often of a goddess, who personifies the reproductive and also the destructive powers of nature (for it is not only in India that the two activities are seen to be akin) existed in many countries.
He personifies the powers of birth and death, of change, decay and rebirth—in fact all that we include in the prosaic word nature.
No sect of Hinduism personifies the powers of evil in one figure corresponding to Satan, or the Ahriman of Persia.
La Louve, if you will, personifies this fatal influence.
Fleur-de-Marie, if you will, personifies this benevolent influence.
And as he has not made manifest in Sieglinde the images of carnage and annihilation evoked in him by his idea of woman, he personifies these separately in the Walküre.
With the same purpose of anarchistic ridicule he always personifies the sense of duty in idiots or contemptible Pharisees only.
The evangelist afterwards really personifies that which his predecessors have personified only poetically; for he affirms "that the Word became flesh," (v.
His name has the same signification as Baal, and he personifies the same aspect of nature, the sun ruling in the heavens, whose worship was so widely diffused among all the people with whom the Israelites came in contact.
Nu, another sky-goddess, who personifies the sunlit blue midday sky, may also on other accounts claim kinship with the patroness of Athens.
The mind at certain stages personifies the Deity with the greatest ease and naturalness.
Vritra personifies drought, the enemy of Indra, who imprisons the rain in the cloud.
He also personifies reproduction, since the Hindú philosophy excludes the idea of total annihilation without subsequent regeneration.
If Childe Harold personifies Lord Byron, who will personify the poet?
Let us confine ourselves to the remark that Lord Byron, instead of personifying his hero, personifies no one but simply the poet.
So he personifies all forces he perceives but does not understand.
As one by one the phenomena of nature attract man's observation he personifies them.
We have as the central incident the career of a clever lady's-maid who personifies her mistress, and is welcomed by Sir John Erskine, an English country gentleman, as the widow of his dead son.
He personifies his abstractions, and makes them act plays before us.
The inconsistency of a god of vegetation subsisting upon the vegetation which he personifies is not one to strike the primitive mind.
It personifies Wisdom, and draws between its children and the Profane, the same line of demarcation that Egypt had long before taught to the Jews.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personifies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
