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Meaning of personation | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. The act of personating: the playing of a role or portrayal of a character
    countable, uncountable
  2. The roles or characters so played
    countable, uncountable
  3. The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else.
    UK, countable, uncountable

Examples

“It struck him abruptly that a woman whose only being was to "make believe," to make believe that she had any and every being that you liked, that would serve a purpose, produce a certain effect, and whose identity resided in the continuity of her personations, so that she had no moral privacy, as he phrased it to himself, but lived in a high wind of exhibition, of figuration—such a woman was a kind of monster, in whom of necessity there would be nothing to like, because there would be nothing to take hold of.”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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