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What does eidolon mean?

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Noun
  1. An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality.
  2. A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
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The subjectification of the beloved in Petrarchan lyric entails the internalization of a feminine image, an eidolon rather than an objectively real presence.
I could thus see myself, gazing through my dream eyes on my eidolon, as if it were only a reflection in a mirror.
Accounts say that it was her double, or eidolon, which figured at Troy.
Tulliver in particular, as he is represented to be in that eidolon or portrait of him which we have seen to exist in the miller's mind.
Whichever way she turned the eidolon of Caroline met her as a bar to all further progress in her design upon the Intendant.
Eidolon was too small to help her and the Muse man was laughing too hard, so eventually she stepped on my foot with her big, clodhopper boots.

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