Definition of "impersonations" []

• Plural form of impersonation. (noun)

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• "You might expect comedian Tina Fey to be ubiquitous after the election with her uncanny Palin impersonations."
• "If I say simply -- "The Sorrows," there will be a chance of mistaking the term; it might be understood of individual sorrow -- separate cases of sorrow, -- whereas I want term expressing the mighty abstractions that incarnate themselves in all individual sufferings of man's heart; and I wish to have these abstractions presented as impersonations, that is, as clothed with human attributes of life, and with functions pointing to flesh."
• "If I say simply, “The Sorrows, ” there will be a chance of mistaking the term; it might be understood of individual sorrow, —separate cases of sorrow, —whereas I want a term expressing the mighty abstractions that incarnate themselves in all individual sufferings of man’s heart; and I wish to have these abstractions presented as impersonations, that is, as clothed with human attributes of life, and with functions pointing to flesh."