1 [C,usually sing.] ~ of sth a person who has a lot of a particular quality or characteristic:
She was the personification of elegance.
2 [U,C] the practice of representing objects, qualities, etc. as human beings, in art and literature; an object, quality, etc. that is represented in this way:
the personification of autumn in Keats's poem
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