A compromise is therefore effected by personifying only the more graceful ones, like S and the lower-case f, and this means that a certain discrimination must be used in selecting the actors.
Awe and fear are quick to express themselves in rudimentary worship; hence the myth was at the outset a theology, and the gradations from personifying to deifying are too faint to be traced.
There were many lion-headed gods and goddesses, in some cases personifying the destructive power.
At Heliopolis, Anubis was to some extent fused with Horus as regards his attributes, and in some manner he took on the character of the old fusion between Horus and Set, in this latter connexion personifying death and decay.
The fact that language, in its earlier stage, was charged with personal life and activity, is itself the work of the personifying instinct.
Brihaspati, the lord of prayer, personifying the omnipresent power of prayer, was adored.
Chaucer took his notion of personifying Pity from Statius, who personifies Pietas in his Thebaid, xi.
Meanwhile, it is worth observing that the notion of personifying Pity is taken from Chaucer's favourite author Statius; see the Thebaid, bk.
In a word, through sculpture, painting, and superstition, they underwent the same personifying process as the saints of mediaeval Italy.
But just as the imagination varies in degree and force in different races, so will this power of carrying the personifying instinct onward into art be found to vary.
Mr. Darwin's habit of personifying nature has given, as his friend Mr. Wallace says, his readers a good deal of trouble.
This exquisite statue tableau represents a beautiful vase, the sides of which are ornamented with statues, personifying Spring, Summer, and Autumn.
It was the genius of a race destitute of an organized priesthood, and not the fancy of the poet, which animated nature by personifying its forces.
Nay, more, he saw the wild men about him actually personifying them.
When men had come to perceive that it was a force, they had passed the personifying stage.
The perfection of the sensitive's acting, when personifying diverse individualities, is most striking when they have known the persons they are imitating.
In a series of experiments which have now lasted for more than two years, I have had frequent opportunity of studying raps personifying diverse entities.
A female figure, personifying the United Colonies, is kneeling, with a sword in her right hand, while she points with her left to a constellation of thirteen stars, emblematical of the thirteen original United States.
And so the old man goes on personifying and animating the whirlwind, as if the whirlwind were now a king, not without consciousness of his kingship.
And this personal or rather personifying element in faith extends even to the lowest forms of it, for it is this that produces faith in pseudo-revelation, in inspiration, in miracle.
The continuity of person [345] is preserved by this fiction, as in Rome it was by personifying the inheritance ad interim.
Whatever the hidden ground of policy may be, their thought still clothes itself in personifying language.
Behind this monstrous cow walks a boy with one foot shod and the other bare, personifying the Genius of Industry.
M139) European peoples, ancient and modern, have not been singular in personifying the corn as a mother goddess.
Peter personifying Faith, John personifying Love, it was natural to take James as the personification of Hope.
You cannot dramatize a reaction by personifying the reacting force only, any more than Archimedes could lift the world without a fulcrum for his lever.
These personages, who strike the allegoric and personifying note of the poem, are described at varying length, the last three being perhaps the best.
Hi, sun, is used as an epithet for the glorification of human personages, and the compounds hiko and hime are in turn applied to nature powers as a personifying term.
But the Nihongi in the parallel passage merely speaks of its efficacy in repelling evil spirits, and refrains from deifying or even personifying it.
We are therefore formulating no metaphysical theory in personifying mankind, and pointing out that the perfecting of which it is capable is the great end which it has set itself.
The progress has been represented by personifying the ideal and supposing the person to change with each new ideal.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "personifying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
