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| Ate |
in Greek mythology, a personification of humans' wicked folly or blind ambition, that is punished by Nemesis. |
| Belial |
in the Bible, a personification of evil. |
| death |
(cap.) the personification of death, usu. in the form of a skeleton wearing a long, black, hooded cape and carrying a scythe. [1/5 definitions] |
| Jack Frost |
the personification of frost or cold weather. |
| John Barleycorn |
the personification of any intoxicating liquor. |
| John Bull |
a typical Englishman or a personification of the English government or people, after the main character in the eighteenth-century allegory History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot. |
| Mother Nature |
a personification of the force or principle that seems to regulate the physical universe. |
| sun god |
a personification of the sun, worshiped as a god. [1/2 definitions] |
| Thanatos |
in Greek mythology, a personification of death. [1/2 definitions] |
| Uncle Sam |
a personification of the government or people of the United States as a tall thin man with a beard, wearing a top hat and red-and-white-striped trousers. [1/2 definitions] |
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