personate
verb (used with object)
to act or portray (a character in a play, a part, etc.).
will personate
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future tenseof personate.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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The proudest man will personate humility, the morosest learn to flatter, the laziest will be sedulous and active, where he is in pursuit of what he has much at heart.
From The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 03 Swift's Writings on Religion and the Church — Volume 1 by Jonathan Swift
Keep near me, and follow me to the dressing-rooms; by-and-by we will exchange costumes there, after which, you will personate me.”
From Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives by Lawrence L. Lynch
Frequently one of these men will personate half a dozen different characters.
From The Secrets of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe
"Thomas Rendner will personate the Christ well--there is no danger on that score."
From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Wilhelmine von Hillern
"He is thy counterpart, my son, and he will personate thee," said Lady De Aldithely.
From A Boy's Ride by Gulielma Zollinger
