character noun
Category: personality.
1604, Cawdrey:
the fashion of a Letter, a marke, or stampe.
1626, Cockeram:
the forme of a letter, a marke, signe, or stampe in any thing.
1658, Phillips:
(Greek) the print, or seal of any thing, a note in chronology, also the name of printers several sort of letters.
1676, Coles:
g. the print of any thing, or mark in short-hand, or any letter; also…a lively description of a person.