English Dictionary

personation

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 イギリス英語

The act of personating: the playing of a role or portrayal of a character / The roles or characters so played / (UK) The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else.

日本語の意味

役やキャラクターを演じる行為 / その結果として演じられる役やキャラクター / （英国での用法）他人になりすまして行う投票行為

Her personation of the elderly widow in the play moved the audience to tears.

彼女の舞台での老女の演技は観客を涙させた。

意味（1）

The act of personating: the playing of a role or portrayal of a character

意味（2）

The roles or characters so played

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.

意味（3）

(UK) The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else.

personations （ plural ）