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epitome

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n. 1 (context of a class of items English) The embodiment or encapsulation of. 2 (context of a class of items English) A representative example. 3 (context of a class of items English) The height; the best. 4 (context of a written document English) A brief ...

Usage examples of epitome.

To a newly minted young lawyer, they seemed the epitome of hospitality and noble friendliness, offering lodging to newcomers and hosting dinners and parties at Bellevue and Belvidere for those who came to town for the circuit court in the spring and fall.

Leukemia was the epitome of my helplessness, for the treatment was to bomb the bone marrow with cell poisons called cytotoxins until it looked, under the microscope, like Hiroshima, all black, empty, and scorched.

The object of the epitome was to enable an individual to gather encyclopaedic knowledge without needing to plough through an entire work.

They are the epitome, the extreme against which other gangs measure themselves.

Gryntaro was the epitome of the rough-and-tumble, no-nonsense type of Qanska, the sort who would be instantly and unanimously put in charge if the Counselors and Leaders and Wise ever decided to organize an army and take on the Vuuka in a straight-up battle.

That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanack below calls ditto.

I called on Count Lamberg and his countess, who, without being beautiful, was an epitome of feminine charm and amiability.

Seated as he was on that night, poring over some sheets of vellum by the dimming-flaring light of a lamp, he looked the epitome of a noble-born great captain, a wealthy war-leader of armies of this world's late seventeenth centuryclothed well and expensively, a belt of silver plates set with semiprecious stones cinching his waist and a bejeweled dagger depending from it.

His hair was more hairy, his clothes more clothy, his boots the epitome of bootness.

She had drawn up for her own use an epitome of oriental history, and familiarly compared the beauties of Homer and Plato under the tuition of the sublime Longinus.

The driver, a sergeant by the name of Giscard, was at least six feet three in height, burly, red faced, tight mouthed and, even to the cold, insolent eyes, was the conceptualized epitome of the dyed-in-the-wool tough cop.

The lumbering young man in Chicago had made himself into the best forger and disguiser in the world, and Chloe decided that the three of them alone were the epitomes of his handiwork.

The house next to Reynaud’s Bakery became warm and dear, Lee the epitome of friend and counselor, his father the cool, dependable figure of godhead, his brother clever and delightful, and Abra —well, of Abra he made his immaculate dream and, having created her, fell in love with her.

To Reich she was the epitome of the modern career girl---the virgin seductress.

Reich she was the epitome of the modern career girl---the virgin seductress.