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Word Meanings - SPITFIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A violent, irascible, or passionate person. Grose.

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  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • VIOLENT
    probably akin to Gr. 1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. Float
  • PERSONAL
    Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
  • PERSONIFY
    1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
  • PERSONIFIER
    One who personifies.
  • PERSONA
    See 8
  • PERSONABLE
    1. Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E.
  • PERSONALLY
    1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;
  • PERSONALISM
    The quality or state of being personal; personality.
  • PERSONALTY
    Personal property, as distinguished from realty or real property. (more info) 1. The state of being a person; personality.
  • VIOLENTLY
    In a violent manner.
  • PERSONALITY
    That quality of a law which concerns the condition, state, and capacity of persons. Burrill. (more info) 1. That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality. Personality is individuality existing in itself, but with a nature as a ground.
  • PASSIONATE
    1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
  • PERSONATION
    The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.
  • PERSONALIZE
    To make personal. "They personalize death." H. Spencer.
  • PERSONEITY
    Personality. Coleridge.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • UNIPERSONALIST
    One who believes that the Deity is unipersonal.
  • TRIPERSONALITY
    The state of existing as three persons in one Godhead; trinity.
  • IMPERSONATION; IMPERSONIFICATION
    The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
  • IMPASSIONATE
    Strongly affected. Smart.
  • TRIPERSONAL
    Consisting of three persons. Milton.
  • MONOPERSONAL
    Having but one person, or form of existence.
  • IMPERSONATOR
    One who impersonates; an actor; a mimic.
  • IMPERSONALLY
    In an impersonal manner.

 

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