eidolon
a phantom; apparition.
an ideal.
Origin of eidolon
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How to use eidolon in a sentence
In the background of all we fancy a hideous eidolon, from whose side even the damned recoil in loathing.
Guy Livingstone; | George A. LawrenceWhichever way she turned the eidolon of Caroline met her as a bar to all further progress in her design upon the Intendant.
The Golden Dog | William KirbyI could thus see myself, gazing through my dream eyes on my eidolon, as if it were only a reflection in a mirror.
She and I, Volume 2 | John Conroy HutchesonThe Homeric solution is to divide the man, or to double him, into his shade (eidolon) and his self.
Homer's Odyssey | Denton J. SniderBut if any one likes let us leave him a mere eidolon, an earlier "Great Unknown."
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 | George Saintsbury
British Dictionary definitions for eidolon
/ (aɪˈdəʊlɒn) /
an unsubstantial image; apparition; phantom
an ideal or idealized figure
Origin of eidolon
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