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noun, plural ef·fi·gies.
Idiom1.
a representation or image, especially sculptured, as on a monument.
2.
a crude representation of someone disliked, used for purposes of ridicule.
3.
in effigy, in public view in the form of an effigy: a leader hanged in effigy by the mob.
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In effigy
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in effigy
Symbolically. For example, That umpire was completely unfair
let's burn him in effigy. Now used only figuratively, this term formerly signified a way of carrying out the sentence of a criminal who had escaped, such as burn in effigy or hang in effigy. A dummy was made of the criminal or a detested political figure and subjected to the prescribed punishment. [c. 1600]
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