had been personifying

• past perfect progressive

  past perfect progressive

  Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.

  of personify.
  personify

  verb (used with object)

  to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.

Related Words

• act out
• embody
• epitomize
• exemplify
• illustrate
• incarnate
• manifest
• symbolize
• typify