representation
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See also représentation
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- IPA: /ˌrɛp.rə.zɛn.ˈteɪ.ʃən/, SAMPA: /%rEp.r@.zEn."teI.S@n/
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[edit] Noun
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representation (plural representations)
- That which represents another.
- A figure, image or idea that substitutes reality.
- A theatrical performance.
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- 1637: Henry Lawes, dedication to Lawes’s edition of Milton’s 1634 masque, Comus, final sentence
- Live, ſweet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your moſt honoured parents, and as in this repræſentation your attendant Thyrſis, ſo now in all reall expreſſion
Your faithfull and moſt humble Servant,
H. Lawes.d
- Live, ſweet Lord, to be the honour of your name, and receive this as your own, from the hands of him, who hath by many favours beene long obliged to your moſt honoured parents, and as in this repræſentation your attendant Thyrſis, ſo now in all reall expreſſion
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that which represents another
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a figure, image or idea that substitutes reality
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theatrical performance
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[edit] External links
- representation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- representation in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
