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effigy
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effigy as in:  burned in effigy

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    And as he reached the end of the passage, the memory of a third stone effigy came back to him: that of an ugly old warlock, onto whose head Harry himself had placed a wig and a battered old hat.  (source)
    effigy = a model or other representation
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    So long as the probe gets to Hermes, they can burn me in effigy for all I care.  (source)
    effigy = a symbolic manner (burning a dummy or representation)
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    A man so despised, so foul tempered, so robotically inflexible that on the last day of eighth grade we defaced his yearbook picture with staples and left it like an effigy behind his seat.  (source)
    effigy = a model or other representation of a person that is made to mock or abuse
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    At first he was a silent effigy of sorrow; but then the lamentation rose out of him, loud and sustained as the conch.  (source)
    effigy = a model or image
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    In the produce section in the bottom of the bins they found a few ancient runner beans and what looked to have once been apricots, long dried to wrinkled effigies of themselves.†  (source)
    effigies = models or other representations
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    There were further angry demonstrations, Goldstein was burned in effigy,  (source)
    burned in effigy = a symbolic manner (where they burned a dummy made to represent him)
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    She was skewered in the press and hanged in effigy by frightened mobs that marched upon the Manse demanding explanations.  (source)
    effigy = a symbolic manner (hanging a dummy that represented her)
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    Very slowly the shapes of things return, the trees standing like ancient effigies whispering of the world that once was in some alternate realm where only shadows reside.†  (source)
    effigies = models or other representations
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    First there were speeches in which goons and company thugs were mentioned; then Father, rendered in cardboard and wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar — not things he ever did — was burned in effigy, to loud cheering.†  (source)
    burned in effigy = burned a crude straw man or dummy made to represent a person
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    His need for her and his vulnerability to her screamed at him to back off, to placate her while there was still time if indeed there still was, as a tribe in one of those Rider Haggard stories would have placated their goddess when she was angry, by making sacrifice to her effigy.†  (source)
    effigy = a model or other representation
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    Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxworks, displays, film shows, telescreen programmes all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumors circulated, photographs faked.  (source)
    effigies = crude dummies or representations of people to mock or abuse
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    Denounced, threatened and burned in effigy in Missouri, he did not even bother to seek re-election to the Senate.†  (source)
    burned in effigy = burned a crude straw man or dummy made to represent a person
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    Not an effigy.†  (source)
    effigy = a model or other representation
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