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Meanings of effigy in English
Usage of effigy in English
1
The Jews of music were burned in effigy after being ignominiously dressed.
2
The Southern chivalry howled, and hanged or burned some one in effigy.
3
Only the effigy of the Lost Soul offered a place of refuge.
4
In the vicinity of Newark, Ohio, are two examples of effigy mounds.
5
Protesters torched the governor's effigy outside his sweeping residence in central Lahore.
6
No one dared take the effigy away for fear of being implicated.
7
In his corporeal absence, his effigy receiving all oblations intended for him.
8
This man had come close to murdering him to feed the effigy.
9
He stared a while at the bronze effigy surmounting that vainglorious column.
10
His effigy, like that of his father, dates from the fourteenth century.
11
My double snapped her broom and shattered the effigy into crystalline shards.
12
Killer! A group rushed from the stands toward the effigy of Achillas.
13
Him, Goya left in effigy for the scorn of generations to come.
14
Bob wore the effigy, as his master called it, of a turnspit.
15
On Agar's tomb in Westminster Abbey is an effigy of the cathedral.
16
Aaron, the high priest, presided over the manufacture of the golden effigy.
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Effigy through the time
Effigy across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common