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- noun a mental image produced by the imagination
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Examples
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Wislawa Szymborska's making of poems is the perfection of the word-object, of the exquisitely chiseled thought-image - allegro ma non troppo, as one of her poems is called.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1996 - Presentation Speech 1997
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The slightest improper inflection, the wrong thought-image of a word, or any distraction can cause a spell to fail " or to have unintended consequences. "
The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997
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Through fragmented phrases, bits of thought-image, and ragged patches of vision, Jaric saw a Thienz hand Scait a dark chunk of crystal.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Her thought-image came tinged with anger, a bitterness indefinably deep.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Her thought-image qualified, showing a smooth, spherical object that drifted at the height of a man's shoulder.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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The change recalled a Llondelei thought-image shared on the night he and the Kielmark had set off for Shadowfane from Morbrith: 'You will know pure matrix from that enslaved by demons, for bonding turns the colour like wine.'
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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She did not fully appreciate until afterward that it was her own brain which did the translating; the surgeon's subconscious mind had merely furnished a thought-image which would have been exactly the same, regardless of language.
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908
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"Progress; all safe," was the thought-image that came to him.
The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix Homer Eon Flint 1908
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Looking at this most interesting and suggestive series, it is clear that in these pictures that which is obtained is not the thought-image, but the effect caused in etheric matter by its vibrations, and it is necessary to clairvoyantly see the thought in order to understand the results produced.
Thought-Forms Annie Wood Besant 1890
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But if by chance she had ate her heart out in that house, brooding and fretting, one could think that she might have cast a shell and left some thought-image of herself behind her. "
The Land of Mist Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1926
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