personify

From French personnifier

personify (third-person singular simple present personifies, present participle personifying, simple past and past participle personified)

1. (transitive) To be an example of; to have all the attributes of.

   Mozart could be said to personify musical genius.

2. (transitive) To create a representation of (an abstract quality) in the form of a character.

   The writer personified death in the form of the Grim Reaper.

• personification