simulacre
Americannoun
Other Word Forms
- simulacral adjective
Etymology
Origin of simulacre
1325–75; Middle English < Middle French < Latin simulācrum simulacrum
Example Sentences
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Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed simulacre of U.S. small-town types, at worst human caricatures of something ineluctably real.
From Time Magazine Archive
Give the emotions that cluster about it, and, without being able to analyze the spell by which it is summoned up, you get something like a simulacre of the object in the midst of them.
From Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches by Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Should she fail in what she now sought to affect, it was her ruthless purpose to scatter the miserable simulacre into its original elements.
From Short Stories of Various Types by Freck, Laura F.
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