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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



... Theatricality, a poor conscious ambitious schemer; we cannot conceive him so. The rude message he delivered was a real one withal; an earnest confused voice from the unknown Deep. The man's words were not false, nor his workings here below; no Inanity and Simulacrum; a fiery mass of Life cast-up from the great bosom of Nature herself. To kindle the world; the world's Maker had ordered it so. Neither can the faults, imperfections, insincerities even, of Mohammed, if such ...
— Sacred Books of the East • Various
... along with it such a coil of fables, impurities, intolerances, as makes it a questionable step for me here and now to say, as I have done, that Mahomet was a true Speaker at all, and not rather an ambitious charlatan, perversity and simulacrum; no Speaker, but a Babbler! Even in Arabia, as I compute, Mahomet will have exhausted himself and become obsolete, while this Shakespeare, this Dante may still be young;—while this Shakespeare may still pretend to be a Priest of Mankind, of Arabia as of other places, ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)
... and shine brightly through the gloom; how some former planter and everlasting colonel declines to be reconstructed by events and passes the remainder of his years as a courageous, bibulous, orgulous simulacrum of his once thriving self. Mr. Page's In Ole Virginia and F. Hopkinson Smith's Colonel Carter of Cartersville in a brief compass employ all these themes; and dozens of books which might be named play variations upon them without really enlarging ...
— Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) • Carl Van Doren


Words linked to "Simulacrum" :   guy, waxwork, graven image, idol, effigy, colour, semblance, straw man, representation, wax figure, scarer, gloss, god, strawman, scarecrow, bird-scarer, color


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