personation

noun 3

Definitions

noun

1

The act of personating: the playing of a role or portrayal of a character

2

The roles or characters so played

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.

3

The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else.

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