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Simulacrum

noun
(pl. simulacra)
1.
An insubstantial or vague semblance.
2.
A representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture).  Synonyms: effigy, image.  "The emperor's tomb had his image carved in stone"





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"Simulacrum" Quotes from Famous Books



... types, we find the cherubim shadowing the mercy-seat. Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this name. The sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and light but the ...
— Austin and His Friends • Frederic H. Balfour
... glanced over her shoulder in the direction in which Mrs. Nutter was looking, and with a sort of shock, not knowing whether it was a bodily presence or a simulacrum raised by the incantations of Mary Matchwell, she beheld the dark features and white eye-balls of Nutter himself looking full on them ...
— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... glowing creature I had seen before, when she launched herself into the night as a God of Homer—Hermes or Thetis—launched out from Olympus' top into the sea—"[Greek: ex aitheros empese ponto]," and words fail me to describe the perfection of her being, a radiant simulacrum of our own, the inconscient self-sufficiency, the buoyancy and freedom which she showed me. You may sometimes see boys at their maddest tip of expectation stand waiting as she now stood, quivering on the extreme edge of adventure; ...
— Lore of Proserpine • Maurice Hewlett


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