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Antonyms for effigy

Grammar : Noun
Spell : ef-i-jee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈɛf ɪ dʒi


Definition of effigy

Origin :
  • 1530s, "image of a person," from Middle French effigie (13c.), from Latin effigies "copy or imitation of something, likeness," from or related to effingere "mold, fashion, portray," from ex- "out" (see ex-) + fingere "to form, shape" (see fiction). The Latin word was regarded as plural and the -s was lopped off by 18c. Specifically associated with burning, hanging, etc., at least since 1670s.
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Example sentences :
  • The Southern chivalry howled, and hanged or burned some one in effigy.
  • Extract from : « American Notes » by Rudyard Kipling
  • Possibly the informer could not have said why he was so zealous for the removal of the effigy.
  • Extract from : « Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times » by Charles Carleton Coffin
  • So I adopt an explanation that I take from the anthropologists: burial in effigy.
  • Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
  • He was buried in his own cathedral where his effigy still remains.
  • Extract from : « The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. » by Hartley Withers
  • Criminals who evade punishment by flight are to be hanged in effigy.
  • Extract from : « Canada: the Empire of the North » by Agnes C. Laut
  • A party was bringing an effigy of Mr Hope to burn on the pile.
  • Extract from : « Deerbrook » by Harriet Martineau
  • Here lies the effigy of the bishop in a carved and richly gilded tomb.
  • Extract from : « Exeter » by Sidney Heath
  • Some asserted that he had been burned in effigy both in Spain and in Paris.
  • Extract from : « The Autobiography of St. Ignatius » by Saint Ignatius Loyola
  • Mr. Douglas was reviled by his opponents and burned in effigy at the North.
  • Extract from : « Robert Toombs » by Pleasant A. Stovall
  • Seven students and pastors who could not be found, were hanged in effigy.
  • Extract from : « The Huguenots in France » by Samuel Smiles.

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