| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ef·fi·gy |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   f  -j |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. ef·fi·gies
1. A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group. 2. A likeness or image, especially of a person. | | IDIOM: | in effigy Symbolically, especially in the form of an effigy: The deposed dictator was burned in effigy by the crowd. | | ETYMOLOGY: | French effigie, from Latin effigis, likeness, from effingere, to portray : ex-, ex- + fingere, to shape; see dheigh- in Appendix I.
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