personage
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| —n | |
| 1. | an important or distinguished person |
| 2. | another word for person : a strange personage |
| 3. | rare a figure in literature, history, etc |
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Word Origin & History
personage
1461, "body of a person" (with regard to appearance), from O.Fr. personage (13c.), from M.L. personaticum (1057), from persona (see person). Meaning "a person of high rank or distinction" is attested from 1503; as a longer way to say person, the word was in use from c.1555
(but often slyly ironical, with suggestion that the subject is overly self-important).
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Example sentences
No novelist who has created a credible personage can ever be quite sure what that personage will do.
The franking privilege was part of the personage of the postmaster, as it traveled with him wherever he went.
At the apex is a quasi-deified personage, endowed with supreme authority over his subjects.
And when she was satisfied in these qualifications, she would consider of his personage.
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