1800, "personification;" 1825 as "an acting of a part or character;" noun of action from impersonate (v.).
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impersonate v.
1620s, "represent in bodily form," from assimilated form of Latin in- "into, in" (from PIE root *en "in") + persona "person." Sense of "assume the person or character of" is first recorded 1715; earlier in that sense was personate (1610s). Related: Impersonated; impersonating.