Personation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of personating: the playing of a role or portrayal of a character countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture wordnet
  3. 3
    The roles or characters so played countable, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 4
    imitating the mannerisms of another person wordnet
  5. 5
    The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else. UK, countable, uncountable

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