simulacre

[ sim-yuh-ley-ker ]

noun

, Archaic.

1. simulacrum.

Other Words From

• sim·u·la·cral [sim-y, uh, -, ley, -kr, uh, l], adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of simulacre¹

1325–75; Middle English < Middle French < Latin simulācrum simulacrum

Example Sentences

Disgusting as the whole performance may appear, more especially the blasphemous simulacre of religious worship, it must be admitted in palliation that the very idea of mocking the rites of the Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church never so much as enters the minds of the performers, who would repudiate with the utmost indignation the notion of intentionally placing themselves outside the pale of the Church, and violating the "buenas costumbres" by what they are doing.

From Project Gutenberg

Its inhabitiants, at once fearsome and folksy, were at best expertly stage-managed simulacre of U.S. small-town types, at worst human caricatures of something ineluctably real.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great chief Simulacre summons you!

From Project Gutenberg

Should she fail in what she now sought to affect, it was her ruthless purpose to scatter the miserable simulacre into its original elements.

From Project Gutenberg

He had but to say 'Dors!' and she suddenly became an unconscious Trilby of marble, who could produce wonderful sounds—just the sounds he wanted and nothing else—and think his thoughts and wish his wishes—and love him at his bidding with a strange, unreal, factitious love ... just his own love for himself turned inside out—à l'envers—and reflected back on him as from a mirror ... un écho, un simulacre, quoi? pas autre chose!...

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