eidolon

Example Sentences

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“The eidolons—the possessing spirits. They’re still here, in this room.”

From Literature

Helen doesn’t ask anyone at Prime Space to explain her mission’s name, Eidolon, but if she’d checked Wikipedia, she would have learned that an eidolon is a phantom in human form.

From Washington Times

Still it exists, and it is there that the astral eidolons of all the beings that have lived, animals included, await their second death.

From Project Gutenberg

There is no such thing as the god Apollo, and 227science makes a clean sweep of Apollo and Dionysos and all such fictitious objectivities; they are eidola, idols, phantasms, not objective realities.

From Project Gutenberg

To me       The prophet and the bard,     Shall yet maintain themselves—in higher circles yet,     Shall mediate to the modern, to democracy—interpret yet to them,       God and eidolons.

From Project Gutenberg