All 3 Uses of
effigy
in
Middlemarch
- See if you are not burnt in effigy this 5th of November coming.†
Chpt 1 *effigy = a model or other representation
- At one and the same moment there had risen above the shoulders of the crowd, nearly opposite Mr. Brooke, and within ten yards of him, the effigy of himself: buff-colored waistcoat, eye-glass, and neutral physiognomy, painted on rag; and there had arisen, apparently in the air, like the note of the cuckoo, a parrot-like, Punch-voiced echo of his words.†
Chpt 5
- Mr. Bulstrode asked, reprehensively, what the new police was doing; but a voice could not well be collared, and an attack on the effigy of the candidate would have been too equivocal, since Hawley probably meant it to be pelted.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
a model or other representation -- typically of a person -- often of someone hated, so that it can be mocked and abused