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Persona   /pərsˈoʊnə/   Listen
Persona

noun
(pl. personae)
1.
An actor's portrayal of someone in a play.  Synonyms: character, part, role, theatrical role.
2.
(Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world.  Synonym: image.



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"Persona" Quotes from Famous Books



... vera voces tum demum pectore ab imo Ejiciuntur, et eripitur persona, manet res. [Footnote: ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

... cxu The Esperantist estas preta por akcepti en gxiaj kolonoj la liberan uzon de la cxiam cxeestanta persona pronomo "Mi." Eble mi, gxin enkondukante, estas iomete maltima, sed mi ne povas eviti la opinion ke, ecx nova lingvo devas enhavi almenaux kelkajn el la nekonvenajxoj kiujn cxiuj ...
— The Esperantist, Vol. 1, No. 2 • Various

... that set me thinking. My success with John MacDonald and others had added the whole community to my medical practice, for those who were not sick thought they were. I cheerfully did my best for all, and was supposed to be persona grata. Just below the Cascade Rapids was a famous sucker pool, and after we had camped three Indians came, saying that the pool was full of suckers—would I lend them my ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton

... course of time, therefore, George W. Stener had become persona grata to Edward Strobik, a quondam councilman who afterward became ward leader and still later president of council, and who, in private life was a stone-dealer and owner of a brickyard. Strobik was a benchman ...
— The Financier • Theodore Dreiser

... him, I authorized him to assemble his City Council to take charge generally of the interests of the people; but warned all who remained that they must be strictly subordinate to the military law, and to the interests of the General Government. About two hundred persona, mostly the families of men in the Confederate army, prepared to follow the fortunes of their husbands and fathers, and these were sent in a steamboat under a flag of truce, in charge of my aide Captain Audenried, to Charleston harbor, and there delivered to an officer of the Confederate ...
— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman


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