Word of the Day
Monday, October 29, 2012Eidolon
\ ahy-DOH-luhn \ , noun;
1.
A phantom; apparition.
2.
An ideal.
"An eidolon , a manifestation, if you will, sent up to us from the uttermost deeps to
bring about the end of the world."
-- Neil Gaiman, Looking for the Girl
It was the ghoulish shade of decay, antiquity, and desolation; the putrid, dripping
eidolon of unwholesome revelation, the awful baring of that which the merciful earth
should always hide.
-- H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider
Origin:
Eidolon comes from the more common word idol, which originally referred to pagan
religious idols. It was first used in the 1820s
Thanks to: www.dictionary.com
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