n. [ Cf. F. personnification. ] 1. The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment. C. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Rhet.) A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopœia; as, the floods clap their hands. “Confusion heards his voice.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]