A figure of speech that gives human characteristics to inanimate objects, or represents an absent person as being present.

It is needless to say that I doubted the existence of the absent person described as a nurse.

The doctors naturally made inquiries as to this absent person.

Jean-Philippe was the most continually absent person she had ever met.

"Adequate safeguards concerning property" provisions must be made in the case that an absent person will show up.

But Hiroko showed just how present an absent person could be.

If the absent person didn't mend his ways, it was possible he could end up being suspected of subversion.

When it comes to a deceased or absent person, there is a limitation to enforce the law up to 30 years (after the death).

How could that statue have been wielded by an absent person?

There was no one else present; therefore it must have been an absent person.