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4.09 Personifications and abstractions
Capitalize vivid personifications and metonymic nouns:
- the march of Time
- Fate’s fool
- the Chair (the person in charge of a meeting or assembly)
- the Crown (the person or agency representing a king or queen)
Abstractions are sometimes capitalized when used in an ideal sense. As general concepts, however, they are lower-cased:
- We know that Justice is blind.
- Beauty is truth, truth beauty—that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
— John Keats
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