different between personation vs personate

English

Noun

personation (countable and uncountable, plural personations)

1. The act of personating: the playing of a role or portrayal of a character
2. The roles or characters so played
   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     It struck him abruptly that a woman whose only being was to "make believe," to make believe that she had any and every being that you liked, that would serve a purpose, produce a certain effect, and whose identity resided in the continuity of her personations, so that she had no moral privacy, as he phrased it to himself, but lived in a high wind of exhibition, of figuration—such a woman was a kind of monster, in whom of necessity there would be nothing to like, because there would be nothing to take hold of.

3. (Britain) The act of voting in an election by impersonating someone else.

References

• Ballot Secrecy Factsheet, p2

Anagrams

• onapristone

English

Etymology 1

From Latin pers?n?tus

Verb

personate (third-person singular simple present personates, present participle personating, simple past and past participle personated)

1. (transitive) To fraudulently portray another person; to impersonate.
   • 1873, William Lucas Collins, Plautus and Terence, chapter IV, page 67

     But this latter has, at the suggestion of Tyndarus, exchanged clothes with him, and the slave […] personates the master.

2. (transitive) To portray a character (as in a play); to act.
3. (transitive) To attribute personal characteristics to something; to personify.
4. (transitive) To set forth in an unreal character; to disguise; to mask.

Related terms

• personation
• personative
• personator

Adjective

personate (comparative more personate, superlative most personate)

1. (botany, now uncommon) Having the throat of a corolla nearly closed by a projection of the base of the lower lip (in a way reminiscent of a mask), as in the flower of the snapdragon.
   • 1881, Journal of the Northampton Natural History Society and Field Club, page 248:

     This arrangement is well typified in plants with a personate corolla, such as the toad-flax and snap-dragon, ...

   • 2011, Katherine Dunster, Dictionary of Natural Resource Management, UBC Press (?ISBN), page 230:

     Botanically, the palate is a rounded prominence on the lower lip, closing or nearly closing the throat of a personate flower.

Etymology 2

From Latin person? (“cry out”).

Verb

personate (third-person singular simple present personates, present participle personating, simple past and past participle personated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.

Anagrams

• Esperanto

Latin

Verb

person?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of person?