personificate

P3E1R1S1O1N1I1F4I1C3A1T1E1

verb

To personify.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbpersonificate (third-person singular simple present personificates, present participle personificating, simple past and past participle personificated)

present singular third person personificates · participle present personificating · participle past personificated · past personificated

  1. nonstandardtransitivechiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo personify.

    What about the GOP asians,^([sic]) personificated by former GOP Rep Kim of the Inland Empire...

    2002 February 14, Brian O'Neill, “Pity The Corrupt Rich White People”, in alt.impeach.bush (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026
    3 more examples

    I guess it is most reasonable to imagine the I-E [Indo-European] tribes as having a form of animism originally, personificating any force of nature as a deity, as the early Romans did also, among them the bright sky of the day, which was commonly imagined as a cosmic father, and also the earth, as a mother.

    2002 February 14, Florian Blaschke, “Split Between the Zoroastrians and the Hindus”, in sci.archaeology (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

    Therefore my pleed is, would you care to help me out on a single (minor) problem: ["]Logos" I know in greek^([sic]) mythologi^([sic]) personificates a lively World Order prior to Cosmos... Do you by any chance know if this"^([sic]) term corresponds with a greek translation of The Word mentioned in 1.Johs.Ev?^([sic])

    2002 March 7, MartiN, “Broken Heart”, in dk.livssyn.kristendom (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

    So Galfnor concocted the idea of being an embodiment of God in living flesh.. not merely to personificate him, but to be his mighty finger doing at his own wishes what he wanted from the Ghost that was irrevocable..

    2006 November 11, [Seung Kim] <kims072@hawaii.rr.com>, “Galfnor's Reoccuring Nightmare”, in alt.writing (Usenet), archived from the original on 02 Jul 2026

Origin

Back-formation from personification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Catalan, Portuguese, and Spanish personificar and Italian personificare.

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

personificate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/personificate

MLA

“personificate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/personificate. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “personificate,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/personificate.

Source: personificate on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.