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The embodiment or encapsulation of a class of items.
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A representative example.
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The height; the best.
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A brief summary of a text.
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Examples of epitome in a Sentence
The fashions presented were the epitome of the style of the 1930s.
His lifestyle was the epitome of unsustainable living.
The hotel was the epitome of British colonial elegance in Jamaica.
He was the epitome of cool; but, sadly, he dropped the mannerisms.
Bianca was the epitome of adorable, her dark eyes sparkling and warm, and her sweet glow innocent and fresh.
The epitome of feminine beauty might become the rotund figure on which the momma appears to pride herself.
The day is an epitome of the year.
She was the epitome of evil, and the essence of physical beauty.
While other founder members, including Hubert Parson, became lavish spenders on an opulent lifestyle, some remained the epitome of normality.
Under the terms of the definition I offered earlier, that makes Shakespeare the epitome of art—that is, something that continues to speak to future generations.
The best-known work of his son Lukas was an Epitome of the Magdeburg Centuries.
The volume of his African and European addresses, published in the autumn of 1910, not only presents an epitome of his political philosophy, but discloses the wide range of his interest in life and the methods by which he had striven to bring public opinion to his point of view.
All clean-shaven, bandbox-smart in fresh uniforms and polished boots, they looked the epitome of military discipline.
The second, the Periplus of the Inner Sea (the Mediterranean), is a meagre epitome of a similar work by Menippus of Pergamum, who lived during the times of Augustus and Tiberius.
Alberic followed the epitome of Julius Valerius.
The Swan is the very epitome of what a good village community pub should be.
Webs is a site that is the epitome of how to build your own website for free.
It is a sketch of the history of the world from the creation, based on Jerome, the epitome of Florus, Orosius and the ecclesiastical history of Socrates.
According to Mommsen, Solinus also used a chronicle (possibly by Cornelius Bocchus) and a Chorographia pliniana, an epitome of Pliny's work with additions made about the time of Hadrian.
These beds are the epitome of Modern design and decorating.
A few fragments remain of an epitome by Marcianus of the eleven books of the Geographumena of Artemidorus of Ephesus.
It was a symbol of rebellion and the epitome of self-expression.
They're the epitome of sexy and sure to delight you when you have no visible panty lines, and delight your lover when they get a peek.
Otherwise, as Mommsen says, the Getica is a mera epitome, laxata ea et perversa, historiae Gothicae Cassiodorianae.
With red hair, glowing skin, a voluptuous body he'd experienced many times over, and beautiful eyes, she was the epitome of beauty.
Of course, just because it's the very epitome of utilitarian style doesn't mean every man will eagerly grab one.
He was the author of a brief epitome of Roman history based upon Livy, which he utilized as a means of displaying his antiquarian lore.
From the foregoing epitome which applies to many species, Rhipicephalus appendiculatus for example, it is evident that every individual tick has to find a host on three occasions, namely, as larva, nymph and adult.
Once the flies start hatching, the fish respond by surface feeding, then dry fly fishing becomes the epitome of sport for most anglers.
Form fitted gowns are the epitome of elegance.
For parents who dream of dressing their child like a fairy princess, Luna Luna Copenhagen's designs are the epitome of ethereal and girly fashion.
You get the quality that is the epitome of a successful brand for over sixty years.
Men's fishing shorts are the epitome of casual wear for some men.
The epitome of casual comfort, a T-shirt is the go-to choice for men of all ages.
Tea length dresses are the epitome of femininity.
The parable of the three rings is the epitome of the pragmatic position.
We now proceed to discuss the types of aliphatic compounds; then, the characteristic groupings having been established, an epitome of their derivatives will be given.
The first two books, and parts of the third, eleventh and fifteenth, are only extant in epitome, but otherwise we seem to possess the work entire.
An epitome of his doctrine is contained in three letters preserved by Diogenes.
As, moreover, the extant Epitome is based on our Homilies, it is natural to suppose it was also the basis of earlier orthodox recensions, one or more of which may be used in certain Florilegia of the 7th century and later.
Later the Homilies underwent further adaptation to Catholic feeling even before the Epitome, in its two extant forms, was made by more drastic methods of expurgation.
Further, it discusses, as Hort observes, certain indestructible problems which much early Christian theology passes by or deals with rather perfunctorily; and it does so with a freshness and reality which, as we compare the original 3rd-century basis with the conventional manner of the Epitome, we see to be not unconnected with origin in an age as yet free from the trammels of formal orthodoxy.
Among the latter the chronological epitome appended to Bede's Ecclesiastical History may be specially mentioned.
Another, the so-called Epitome of Julian, contains 125 Novels in Latin; and the third, the Liber authenticarum or vulgata versio, has 134, also in Latin.
The poem had accompanied him from early manhood to the end and was the repository for the fullest "confession" of his life; it is the poetic epitome of his experience.
Some spurious letters bear the name of Severus; also in a MS. at Madrid is a work falsely professing to be an epitome of the Chronica of Severus, and going down to 511.
Nothing is known of his life, except that he was a friend of Libanius and of a certain Eutropius, perhaps the author of the epitome of Roman history.
You are the epitome of what she shouldn't be exposed to.
The most welcome appearance was probably from show-jumper Harvey Smith who even now seemed the epitome of the year he was tagged to.
We regret that we can only give a brief epitome of this interesting document.