impersonification

Just plain watching without impersonification is not the same.

Interaction vs. reaction: But enough about you… « BuzzMachine 2006

She was the very impersonification of good-nature, good-will, and good action.

She and I, Volume 1

The Deity is not degraded by impersonification in the form and frailties of mortality, but everywhere the author reverently bows to that august and unsearchable name, acknowledges the grand and benevolent design -- the admirable adaptation of every created thing to its end and place, and finally concludes in a strain of grateful and exulting Optimism, that we confess we have not fully arrived at -- namely, that everything "is very good." (p. 387.)

An Expository Outline of the "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" With a Notice of the Author's "Explanations:" A Sequel to the Vestiges Anonymous

It was as though the impersonification of the blacksnake whip were walking with her as well as a most notoriously dangerous man, a man who would strike another down, white or coloured, for a glance, not to say a word.

The Ghost Girl 1907

Among the statesmen who advised him, none has met with such scant mercy from posterity as Laud, who has been gibbeted as the impersonification of narrowness, of bigotry, and of cruelty.

The Emancipation of Massachusetts Brooks Adams 1887

His Royal Highness was on foot, and was seen standing facing the enemy, with outstretched legs, like a Colossus of Rhodes, impassive and stolid, -- the very impersonification of Dutch courage and aggressiveness.

History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886

No one that knew him ever thinks of him but as the impersonification of kindness, benevolence and charity.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

Emperor, with his haughty brow, fierce eyes, and determined lips, the very impersonification of self-will and human pride, now brought down to the very dust; but, haughty as was that brow, the expression of the countenance gave no sign of talent or true genius.

Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

'The charman's gone,' replied the boy, who looked upon his master -- the chairman of the Stir-it-stiff Union -- as the impersonification of all earthly greatness.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Then Mr. Jawleyford would shine forth the very impersonification of what a landlord ought to be.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833