eidolon
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
eidolon (plural eidola)
- An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 21:
- It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 697:
- Kit was sitting up staring into the dark at this eidolon, inelegantly turned out contrary to a whole raft of public-decency statutes, which had come monitory and breathing in to violate Kit's insomnia.
- 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 21:
- A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
- Was Philippe d'Orleans seen, this day, 'in the Bois de Boulogne, in grey surtout;' waiting under the wet sere foliage, what the day might bring forth? Alas, yes, the Eidolon of him was,—in Weber's and other such brains.
- 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History
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