The word 'personify' is correct and commonly used in written English.
It means to attribute human characteristics to something non-human, such as an object or concept. Example: In the novel, the fierce storm was personified as a raging beast, tearing through the small town with its howling winds and powerful thunder.
Here his relative obscurity enabled him to personify anonymity; practically unknown on screen, he could also be frighteningly invisible on the streets.
In most people the Hell's Angels strike a chord of fear, loathing, and anger: they personify everything that is wrong with modern youth, the permissive society, and Dr Spock.
Punch magazine would personify graveyard miasma, in doggerel, as 'The Vampyre (NO SUPERSTITION)', ('To work vengeance and woe is his mission of dread. Upon those mid the living who bury their dead').
The chancellor at 43 seems to personify the metropolitan set around his Notting Hill friend, David Cameron.
Is that too perilously close to a party for winners that sleek Cameron and Osborne personify so well?
In the process he came to personify it.His style of supreme leadership, as well as his success, have made him an alluring figure far beyond football.
Michel Camdessus, a former IMF director who made Mr Ouattara one of his deputies, says he has "exceptional integrity, judgment and intellectual rigour" and is "admirably prepared" to return his country, once the region's most prosperous, to the economic eminence it enjoyed in the 1970s.As for the allegation that Mr Ouattara will personify a north-south division, that is too simple.
After 37 years in politics, nearly ten as president, Mr Chirac has come to personify France.
Whether Bill Gates at Microsoft, Stuart Rose at Marks & Spencer or Lee Iacocca at Chrysler, most companies find it impossible fully to replace the bosses who have come to personify the organisations they lead, says Mr Birkinshaw.
He was tried in absentia.At arm's lengthGeneral Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973-90 and who came to personify an era of brutal military dictatorship in South America, died of complications from a heart attack.
But his greatest difficulty has been to personify the break with the failures of the past that the party must make before it is restored as an electoral force.
