eidolon

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Man is essentially an idolater,--that is, in bondage to his imagination,--for there is no more harm in the Greek word eidolon than in the Latin word imago.

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  1. noun A phantom; an apparition.
  2. noun An image of an ideal.

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  1. Greek eidōlon, from eidos, form; see weid- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also idolon (reg. L. form īdōlum, whence English idol, q. v.), from Greek εἴδωλον, an image, phantom, image; of a god, an idol.
 

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/aɪˈdoʊlɑn/
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