Both Uses of
effigy
in
Ulysses by James Joyce
- A POLISHED PERIOD J. J. O'Molloy resumed, moulding his words: —He said of it: that stony effigy in frozen music, horned and terrible, of the human form divine, that eternal symbol of wisdom and of prophecy which, if aught that the imagination or the hand of sculptor has wrought in marble of soultransfigured and of soultransfiguring deserves to live, deserves to live.†
Chpt 7
- Child, man, effigy.†
Chpt 7 *
Definition:
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(effigy as in: burned in effigy) a model or other representation -- typically of a person -- often of someone hated, so that it can be mocked and abused