personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
personating
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present participleof personate.present participle
A verb form that is used in progressive verb constructions and may also function as a modifier or a gerund.
Example Sentences
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This part of the story might be true or not; but certain it was that the ladies had gone away in the company of some one who was personating Luis de Hauteroche.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
What a majesty Without all servile affectation His personating presence, cloth'd with state And princely posture, seems to represent!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
Has he not said a hundred times that, if it were not for personating the Christ, he would have left Ammergau long ago?
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
Is this professed pensioner personating a man who is dead?
From Finger Prints by Sir Francis Galton
There he had a long talk with a fellow who seemed to be personating a bricklayer.
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
