eidolon

eidolon englanniksi

1. 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.

2. (quote-text)

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4. (RQ:Pynchon Against the Day)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.

5. (quote-web)

6. A phantom; a ghost or an elusive entity.

7. (RQ:Carlyle French Revolution)

8. An unsubstantial image; a spectre; a phantom.