Personae
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Personae like these — and Ray’s always inventive approach to their portraits — make this show more than just a roll call of famous names.
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2021
In 2008, the Vatican released the “Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions,” a document that updated its older guidance on reproductive technologies.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 22, 2019
As Gilpin has dealt with newfound fame and acclaim, she has also developed — Personae Nos.
From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2019
What will members of Bowie’s club make of Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae and novels such as A Clockwork Orange?
From The Guardian • Jan. 4, 2018
Personae non gratae to the management—inexplicably so in most instances—were civilly requested to produce membership cards and, upon failure to comply, were inexorably rejected, and departed strangely shamefaced.
From The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf by Vance, Louis Joseph
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