personify
verb (used with object)
to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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It may well be that I mean merely to regard myself sub specie eternitatis, in which case I am personifying in the sense of free imagination.
From The Approach to Philosophy by Ralph Barton Perry