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  1. transitive verb To stand for; symbolize: The bald eagle represents the United States.
  2. transitive verb To indicate or communicate by signs or symbols: Letters of the alphabet represent sounds.
  3. transitive verb To depict in art; portray.
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  • It "lowered a spiritual temperature already too low,"[177:1] and weakened the moral influence of the church, and the value of its testimony to important principles which there were few besides efficiently to represent--the duty of the church not to disown or shut out those of little faith, and the church's duty toward its children. —  A History of American Christianity
  • I daresay it glimmered upon me even then that the very sharpest difficulty of the victim of the conflict I should seek to represent, and the very highest interest of his predicament, dwell deep in the fact that his repudiation of the great obvious, great moral or functional or useful character, shall just have to consent to resemble a surrender for absolutely nothing. —  The Tragic Muse
  • Besides, they had a simpler civilisation to represent--societies in which the life of man was in action, in passion, in immediate and violent expression. —  The Tragic Muse
  • "The life which you and your sister represent is the life I love. —  The Tyranny of the Dark
  • Adonis and Proserpine in wanderings represent--, 404-m. —  Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
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  1. Middle English representen, from Old French representer, from Latin repraesentāre, to show : re-, re- + praesentāre, to present; see present2.

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  1. from Middle English representen, from Old French representer, French représenter =Provencal Spanish Portuguese representar =Italian ripresentare, rappresentare, from Latin repræsentare, bring before one, show, manifest, exhibit, represent, pay in cash, do or perform at once, from re-, again, + præsentare, present, hold out: see present.
  2. from represent, v.
 

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