eidolon
Collocations
4ADJ.
dark, grey, turned
EIDOLON + NOUN
retains
PREP.
in, out
ADV.
inelegantly
Definitions
noun
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.
As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
It was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
A phantom; a ghost or an elusive entity.
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.
An unsubstantial image; a spectre; a phantom.
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3As a species it is extinct; as an eidolon it retains its corporeality – but only if maintained in a state of equipoise.
WiktionaryIt was not hard to forge her image, her "eidolon", in the grey gloom of the little church.
Wiktionary[…]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 insom
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