personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
personator
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a word derived from
personate.
Example Sentences
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How completely is it here fulfilled! for when we discover that the personator of Henrico is meant for an Adonis, we are astonished.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 30, 1841 by Various
The supposed personator of the King was unquestionably an unprincipled time-server.
From Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett
An impostor, a personator, a cheat, and I gave him place and rank.
From The Scapegoat; a romance and a parable by Sir Hall Caine
She was no repeater or false personator, or probably she would not be persecuted, and certainly she would be pardoned.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In this, as in similar cases, it was clearly unnecessary that the personator of the live Lothario of the first four acts should remain upon the stage to represent his dead body in the fifth.
From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook
