Sentence:  Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's <WSD>character</WSD> as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A complex of traits marking a person, group, breed, or type.