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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
personate .
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Examples
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BEGALA: No, and it's in part because I think the personates (ph) were a little sharper back then I think probably.
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See with what a ferocious air the gentleman who personates the Mexican chief, paces up and down, and with what an eye of calm dignity the principal tragedian gazes on the crowd below, or converses confidentially with the harlequin!
Sketches by Boz 2007
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One important one is when one person personates another.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Another important one is when a person personates himself -- which we all do when we treat ourselves as agents responsible for our own words and actions.
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If a group of us is adequately represented by one person, that person personates the whole group as one person by being the representative in virtue of whom the whole group has a unified responsibility.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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Another important one is when a person personates himself -- which we all do when we treat ourselves as agents responsible for our own words and actions.
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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If a group of us is adequately represented by one person, that person personates the whole group as one person by being the representative in virtue of whom the whole group has a unified responsibility.
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One important one is when one person personates another.
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Even when the descent from the cross is acted, in the holy week, with all the circumstances that ought naturally to inspire the gravest sentiments, if you cast your eyes among the multitude that croud the place, you will not discover one melancholy face: all is prattling, tittering, or laughing; and ten to one but you perceive a number of them employed in hissing the female who personates the Virgin Mary.
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"As if I bore the person or character of all," perhaps, "as your representative -- the one who personates you."
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996
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