personation

Personation was one word for it, although cheating seemed more appropriate.

He called the several faculties, gods, in his beautiful personation.

'There seems to have been some personation going on here.

The first opinion is that personation was a bygone superstition.

How marvelously easy of accomplishment the act of personation had been!

Personation of a juror also constitutes a contempt of court.

Both practices are also referred to as personation.

She never looked that tired simply from working on a role-a personation, as some actors called it.

"Have you never read of cases of false personation, in newspapers and books?

However, personation by younger relatives, who were of lower social status than their elders, created an exception to traditional Chinese culture.

Later sources repeat this legendary history of personation.

The primary purpose of a polling agent is to assist in detection of personation.

But these tests, as implied above, will not serve to detect personation by self-suggested phantasms.

Polling day was reported as quiet, apart from two attempts to assault Parnell, and one alleged case of personation.

Applying for a ballot paper or voting in the name of someone else amounts to the offence of personation.

The Act also states that personation of a juror may result in the trial in which the juror sat being voided.

When the personation ceremony supposedly originated during the Xia Dynasty (ca. 2100-ca.

Carr (2007:386) notes, "This passage sounds as though Ban had personally observed a personation ceremony."

Personation also appears as a crime in the Canadian Criminal Code with the meaning simply of impersonation.

The Liberals were fearful of personation and employed a large number of scrutineers at the eleven polling stations.

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The Liji reiterates that personation contradicted the established social hierarchy (18, tr.

In early life Miss Graham enjoyed personation, and mystified her acquaintance by presenting herself to them disguised as somebody else.

Any other man here would have rejoiced to see his son or daughter chosen for the personation, but it was yours who best met all the qualifications.