1. A phantom; an apparition.
2. An image of an ideal.
of course, there's more to a definition than that, but for the sake of being concise, it's the most effective. suddenly, whitman's poem make's much more sense; of course, whitman being a transcendentalist should have set off the alarms earlier. furthermore, "eidolons" is pronounced "eye-doe-lens."
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Which syllable takes the emphasis?
Yes, I don't ascribe to transcendentalism either. Although, I have found myself, only recently of course, to be somewhat of a 'transcen-dentifrice-alist', because, let's face it, 'dentifrice' is just entirely too ambiguous! It is high time it was transcended by the unequivocal - 'toothpaste'.
Emphasis is on the "do" syllable.
Haha. While I agree with you, I'm just going to throw it out there that 'dentifrice' does give us the big picture, which at times is good to recognize.
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