Definition of "personifications" [personifications]

• Plural form of personification. (noun)

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• "Hereupon the three novitiate spirits questioned the two angelic spirits concerning heaven; and as two of the three novitiates were youths, and there darted from their eyes as it were a sparkling fire of lust for the sex, the angelic spirit said, "Possibly you have seen some females;" and they replied in the affirmative; and as they made inquiry respecting heaven, the angelic spirits gave them the following information: "In heaven there is every variety of magnificent and splendid objects, and such things as the eye had never seen; there are also virgins and young men; virgins of such beauty that they may be called personifications of beauty, and young men of such morality that they may be called personifications of morality; moreover the beauty of the virgins and the morality of the young men correspond to each other, as forms mutually suited to each other.""
• "There was lately an old canon at Cologne who made a collection of small wax models of characteristic figures, such as personifications of"
• "The point of his analysis is not an abstract metaphysical one divorced from the analysis of a specific social situation: Marx is not trying to claim, for example, that humans are inexorably driven by economic forces, or that people in all contexts could be equally appropriately described as the "personifications" of things."