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personage

[ pur-suh-nij ]

noun

  1. a person of distinction or importance.
  2. any person.
  3. a character in a play, story, etc.


personage

/ ˈɜːəɪ /

noun

  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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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of personage1

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English: “body or image (statue, portrait) of a person” (from Old French ), from Medieval Latin ō岵ܳ. See person, -age
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Musk’s unrestrained, all-access scourge through the government has led pundits like Nate Silver to compare him to a ‘great man’ of history — that mythic personage whose unhindered agency pushes history forward.

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We chronicle, explicate, elucidate and constantly “re-adjudicate” historical events and personages.

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Mr. Allman introduces us to an eclectic gallery of Miami personages.”

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"These films seek to challenge what we think we know about historical personages or important historical incidents. They are out to create a new alt-history."

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One day, Lockshin and his classmates marched across the cobblestones of Red Square to Vladimir Lenin’s tomb to pay tribute to the waxy corpse of the country’s most sacred personage.

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