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‖ persona|pəˈsəʊnə|
The Latin word for person, q.v., used in certain phrases:
1. persona grata [late L.], an acceptable person or personage; originally applied to a diplomatic representative who is personally acceptable to the personage to whom he is accredited; persona non grata (pl. personæ non gratæ), an unacceptable or unwelcome person.
1882Standard 20 Dec. 5 At a supper of criminals in full work in their profession he might be welcomed as a persona grata. 1884E. W. Hamilton Diary 2 Sept. (1972) II. 679 Malet did well at Versailles and is a persona grata to Bismarck, who was intimate with Malet's mother. 1904Conrad Nostromo i. vi. 86 See that, Mr. Gould? Persona non grata. That's the reason our government is never properly informed. 1928‘Brent of Bin Bin’ Up Country iv. 52 He was admirably suited to his calling at that time, and his education and personality made him persona grata to all his superiors, from the Surveyor-General downwards. 1928D. L. Sayers Lord Peter views Body vi. 151 Oh, I'll keep out of it... I shan't be exactly persona grata, don't you know. 1935H. Edib Clown & his Daughter xlii. 238 The fact that he is his father's son makes him persona grata in the Sultan's eyes. 1958Oxford Mail 15 Feb. 1/2 The BMC management should have known that the introduction of two or three people who are persona non grata with the other 350 men in the shop would create difficulty. 1964M. Gowing Britain & Atomic Energy, 1939–1945 v. 172 He made it clear that Mr Akers was persona non grata to the Americans on account of his industrial connections with I.C.I. 1965C. D. Eby Siege of Alcázar (1966) i. 30 At such times Army officers were personae non gratae. 1968Listener 7 Nov. 603/3 Gandhi was..always persona grata with the high⁓ups. 1972Daily Tel. 2 June 3/3 Your recent book has..caused a lot of annoyance here, and you would not be persona grata at Eton on the Fourth of June. 1973Times 15 Feb. 7/8 In view of Pakistan's ‘violation’, the spokesman added, the Iraq Government had decided to retaliate by declaring the Pakistan Ambassador and a Second Secretary as personae non gratae and warning them against returning to Iraq. 1974Times 23 Jan. 15/1 Moscow intercepts a Peking-bound Chinese diplomat..claims he is carrying espionage material, and declares him persona non grata. 1976A. Grey Bulgarian Exclusive xvi. 109 With half a dozen telephone calls..you will be persona non grata..throughout Eastern Europe.
2. in propria persona: see in prep.
3. persona designata [Law L.], a specified person; one who is individually denominated, as opp. one who is included in a legal category or class consisting of several persons.
1875Law Rep. Chancery Appeal Cases X. 359 The legatees in this case, although described as a class, are in fact personæ designatæ as much as if they were mentioned by name. 1876H. S. Theobald Conc. Treat. Construction of Wills xiii. 114 My nephew Joseph is clearly persona designata, and the question then is whom did the testator mean to point out? 1955Times 4 May 4/3 It was against him as the person designated to carry out certain functions prescribed by Act of Parliament of laying before each House of Parliament a draft scheme, and that was done as a persona designata. 1973Deb. Senate Canada 19 June 4889/1 There have been examples of an appeal court challenging the actions of an appellate court judge when he was acting persona designata.
4. Pl. personæ, personas.
a. A character deliberately assumed by an author in his writing; also transf.
1909E. Pound (title) Personae. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 20 June 345/1 To this extent, Lewis Eliot is, as it were, a convenient and comfortable persona for his author. 1962W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use ii. 42 So far as a particular kind of persona is necessary to the poem, the poet's diction must create it. 1963Auden Dyer's Hand 401 The more closely his [sc. Byron's] poetic persona comes to resemble the epistolary persona of his letters to his male friends..the more authentic his poetry seems. 1976Gramophone Dec. 965/3 George Logan and Patric Fyffe in the personae of Dr Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket are on EMI One-Up OU2125 (7/76).
b. In Jungian psychology, the set of attitudes adopted by an individual to fit himself for the social role which he sees as his; the personality an individual presents to the world; also loosely. Opp. anima.
1917C. E. Long tr. Jung's Coll. Papers Analytical Psychol. (ed. 2) xv. 466 The persona is always identical with a typical attitude, in which one psychological function dominates, e.g. feeling, or thought, or intuition. 1923[see anima]. 1931H. G. Wells Work, Wealth & Happiness of Mankind (1932) viii. 298 A man's guiding and satisfying idea of himself is what Jung calls his ‘persona’. Ibid. xii. 617 There was nothing in their personas to prevent it. 1935Trans. Philol. Soc. 66 We are born individuals. But to satisfy our needs we have to become social persons, and every social person is a bundle of rôles or personæ. 1936‘M. Innes’ Death at President's Lodging iii. 51 In the Dean's persona the episcopal idea had of late been rapidly developing. 1940H. G. Wells Babes in Darkling Wood iv. ii. 333 Some austerer element in his make-up was putting his persona on trial. 1966Cox & Rolfe tr. Herzog's Psyche & Death xv. 193 The dreamer has to answer for himself in his own right—he cannot claim the protection of the persona of his office. 1972Observer 30 Jan. 9/6 He can be a pompous, contentious man, yet his private persona sometimes contrasts sharply with his more abrasive public image... He has also kept his dignity, consistently refusing to exploit or trivialise his public persona in the lucrative entertainment field. |