Personae

[ per-soh-nee ]

noun

1. a collection of poems (1926) by Ezra Pound.

Example Sentences

It is also a world in which digital personae appear ready to lure the unsuspecting to places they may never return from.

From Los Angeles Times

Another reason which could have pushed Mr Shivambu to defect is that he and Mr Malema - despite their public personae of being socialists and African nationalists - were at the centre of a major corruption scandal, he added.

From BBC

The fantasy that every bad man would get his due, with the violent ones in jail and the manipulative ones made personae non grata, has not played out.

From Slate

We will shed that mimetic world of quick mundane prophecy, which initially and for several years limited us to 143 characters, and come offline together, eventually, singing protest memes in sync until they take on their lyrical personae and become the new temperament of Black protest music.

From Los Angeles Times

Nonspecialist readers could easily get lost in the plethora of strange names—a five-page dramatis personae helps, though it’s not necessary to know the identity of any particular Assyrian royal in order to grasp the larger points—while he fears fellow academics might take issue with a scholar straying beyond his area of expertise and synthesizing the research of hundreds of colleagues.

From Slate