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An ideal instance; a perfect embodiment of a concept.

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A representation of a deity, notably a statue or a statuette.

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Examples for "perfection"
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This affection is a good precisely because it leads to our perfection.
Is Human Nature Obsolete?
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However, it is in their flower form that they reach utter perfection.
The Guardian
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In architecture, in sculpture, and in painting the Greeks attained absolute perfection.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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We seek perfection, we always want to be better. TV: 7 p.m.
Reuters
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In the flourishing days of Attica, the gymnasium was in its perfection.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 / A Magazine ...
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Not that any given spud is ever such a paragon of form.
The botany of desire: a plant's-eye view of the world
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The wickedness of London appals me; and yet I am no paragon.
Letters of Edward FitzGerald, in Two Volumes. Vol. 1
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She was the only girl in the world that deserved his paragon.
The Big-Town Round-Up
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Even that paragon of fiscal rectitude, Germany, has debt of 68 percent.
Reuters
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And she still thinks that he was the paragon of all virtues.
Don Orsino
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Simplicity of arrangement is always the beau ideal of the mechanical engineer.
Men of Invention and Industry
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Piccinni was the very beau ideal of a father and a husband.
The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 2
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Quietness is its beau ideal of all that is lovely and excellent.
Godliness : being reports of a series of addresses delivered at ...
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He was in many ways our beau ideal - the ultimate New Yorker.
The Irish Times
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His beau ideal, Grandison, turns out the most impossible prig in English literature.
Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personal...

Someone who is adored blindly and excessively.

Uso de idol em inglês
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And to hear that coming from a really great idol is difficult.
The Guardian
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Genius is her idol; and with her genius is found in everything.
Vivian Grey
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He caught the latter in the hollow idol of a huge Shiva.
From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan
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Both united in condemning to eternal wrath the idol-worshippers of the Kaaba.
Mahomet, Founder of Islam
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They walked up to the idol in the presence of its votaries.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
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The idol is worthy of the temple, the temple of the idol.
The Story of Versailles
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God bless my own love; the idol of his fond and happy
Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
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The Hohenphalians love me; I am something of an idol to them.
Arms and the Woman
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Being a saxophone idol is a relatively new experience for Marius Neset.
The Irish Times
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Sahwah was the idol of the athletically inclined portion of the school.
The Camp Fire Girls at School; Or, The Wohelo Weavers
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You were my idol-theone thing in the wide world to me.
Zuleika Dobson; Or, An Oxford Love Story
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Carry more than one idol and you're severely limiting your potential actions.
Wired
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David was forced to call his idol to deliver the bad news.
Reuters
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What he wishes in place of the idol is a right conception.
The Warriors
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The idol of a savage is a demon that delights in carnage.
Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
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They are in fact using an idol in their worship and understanding.
A Wiccan Bible
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