personification

Preposition: of

• evil: He will be the embodiment of sin the personification of evil.
• force: Stories about these fairy people became merged with Celtic personifications of the forces of nature.
• idea: There is nothing unusual in the gradual personification of an abstract idea.
• power: One wonders, then, whether the South American gods were of a similar ilk, i.e. personifications of celestial powers.
• death: Such personifications of death occur about 80 times in our sample, of which at least 10 ( 12.5 % ) have initial capitals.
• virtue: Matilda is here the personification of that active rational virtue.

Converse of object

• become: Then we share his discovery that he hates Calum so profoundly because he has become the personification of his own deformed life.
• use: In his poem Low Water Ted Hughes uses personification to describe a river e.g. ' She lolls on her deep couch.
• have: Many nature religions, such as animism, believe that everything found in nature has a personification, a spirit.
• create: Hopkins creates the personification of evil and a character that defines what man is capable of doing to man.
• show: Hadrian had spent much of his reign touring the Roman world, and some of these showed the personifications of provinces greeting him.

Adjective modifier

• anthropomorphic: Real Name: None - he has many names and no real name, since he is the anthropomorphic personification of an abstract concept.
• female: Even in the most ancient sources, the female personification of cities is associated with symbols of weddings.
• real: Took on the real personification that has long been ignored prior to his.
• very: Woods, who began the final round only two shots back of the leader, was the very personification of a curious day.
• legal: It is the legal personification of the University and as such can sue and be sued.
• poetic: As a poetic personification of misfortune and ill-luck, anyone can accept Satan, but you people think he actually exists.