Imagines

Word IMAGINES
Character 8
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ɪˈmeɪdʒɪniːz/

Definitions and meanings of "Imagines"

What do we mean by imagines?

The final developmental stage of an insect after undergoing metamorphosis.

An idealised concept of a loved one, formed in childhood and retained unconsciously into adult life, the basis for the psychological formation of personality archetypes.

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The word "imagines" in example sentences

In Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum's "Ms. Hempel Chronicles," for example, the schoolteacher of the title imagines her students as "tenderhearted vultures." ❋ Jennifer Vanderbes (2011)

Frankenstein imagines is directed against himself ( "I carried pistols and a dagger constantly about me," (III: 5: 30). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Last night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Kimmel sympathized with Sheen's publicist, who he imagines is having a hard time coming up with ways to excuse the actor's behavior. ❋ The Huffington Post News Team (2010)

One imagines from the havoc wreaked on local currencies that the retreat in metals prices (and some grains) is going to ravage the economies of places like Brazil and Argentina. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stephen Chu wants your children to live worse so that his children can live better — in the world he imagines is the correct one. ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Morson then continues]: When Kitty insists on going with him [Levin, her husband] to his dying brother Nikolai, Levin imagines that she is simply afraid to be alone. ❋ Linda (2008)

Think of God as the author of the world - only the world he imagines is real and the characters are both real and free - and take it from there. ❋ Frank Wilson (2006)

Early on, for instance, young Joe Kavalier almost drowns while attempting a Houdini-like escape designed to gain entrance to what he imagines is a glamorous private club for magicians. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. ❋ M-mv (2004)

And I’d still like to know if Professor Bernstein imagines that his forebears might have made a better choice than the US, notwithstanding its inclinations to “activist” over “libertarian” government, and its faults and history of antisemitism, when they fled the Czar. ❋ Unknown (2010)

McCain imagines himself to be as tough as Liddy used to be but in reality he’s just a silly old fart with no redeeming qualities and a maverick mouth driven by a chaotically disorganised butterfly mind. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The loss of Carla's pet goat — she imagines, which is to say understands (there is no difference for Munro's female characters), that her husband has punished her by killing it — is an echo of the many violent visions that Munro's wives have of the men they've chosen, and of men in general. ❋ Unknown (2004)

China pidgin, and by placing a long E at the end of every word imagines he is making himself completely clear to the suffering Gaul. ❋ Various (N/A)

Succefferunt alias imagines, quas infiften - tem Pflugii tumulo de patria mea monebant. ❋ Unknown (1789)

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