Illustrate vs Personify - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) To shed light upon; to illuminate.
* Were the Moon smooth, as a looking glass, a very small part would be seen by any particular eye to be illustrated by the Sun.
* Chapman
To clarify something by giving, or serving as, an example or a comparison.
* Milton
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To provide a book or other publication with pictures, diagrams or other explanatory or decorative features.
* The economics textbook was illustrated with many graphs.
(obsolete) To give renown or honour to; to make illustrious; to glorify.
* Milton
To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.
To create a representation of an abstract quality in the form of a literary character.
As verbs the difference between illustrate and personify
is that illustrate is to shed light upon; to illuminate while personify is to be an example of; to have all the attributes of.illustrate
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Verb
(illustrat)- Here, when the moon illustrates all the sky.
- To prove him, and illustrate his high worth.
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- Matter to me of glory, whom their hate / Illustrates .
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Verb
(en-verb)- Mozart could be said to personify the idea of a musical genius.
- The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.