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/rˌɛprəzɛntˈeɪʃən/ Listen

noun

Representation n.

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

That which represents. Specifically:

(a)

A likeness, a picture, or a model; as, a representation of the human face, or figure, and the like.

(b)

A dramatic performance; as, a theatrical representation; a representation of Hamlet.

(c)

A description or statement; as, the representation of an historian, of a witness, or an advocate.

(d)

The body of those who act as representatives of a community or society; as, the representation of a State in Congress.

(e)

(Insurance Law) Any collateral statement of fact, made orally or in writing, by which an estimate of the risk is affected, or either party is influenced.

The state of being represented.

Synonyms: Description; show; delineaton; portraiture; likeness; resemblance; exhibition; sight.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... reflection or a portrait of ourselves; by these means we are enabled to some extent to become detached, and to take an external and impersonal view of ourselves. The stage had already turned to the representation of contemporary life and manners; portraiture was increasing in popularity; and the novel was on ...

— The Coverley Papers • Various

... landscape alien to all Philip's notion, for he had lived in circles that worshipped exact realism; and yet here again, strangely to himself, he felt a reality greater than any achieved by the masters in whose steps humbly he had sought to walk. He heard Athelny say that the representation was so precise that when the citizens of Toledo came to look at the picture they recognised their houses. The painter had painted exactly what he saw but he had seen with the eyes of the spirit. There was something unearthly in that city of pale gray. It ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... the depths of this den, however, Sheridan still remained sanguine; and when Whitbread came to release him, he found him confidently calculating on the representation of Westminster, then about to become vacant by the unjust disgrace of Lord Cochrane. On his return home to his wife, fortified perhaps by wine, Sheridan burst into a long and passionate fit of weeping, at the profanation, as he termed it, which ...

— Old and New London - Volume I • Walter Thornbury

... gallery at the left, yet more behind, the dresses and jewels of the dames d'honneur and of the great officers of State. And when the Empress rose to depart, certainly my fancy cannot picture a more queenlike image, or one that seemed more in unison with the representation of royal pomp and power. The very dress, of colour which would have been fatal to the beauty of most women equally fair—a deep golden colour—(Valerie profanely called it buff)—seemed so to suit the splendour of the ceremony and the day; it seemed as if that stately form stood ...

— The Parisians, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... might have done before the surrender of their power: consequently, they would have the power to abolish slavery. The sovereignty of the District of Columbia exists somewhere—where is it lodged? The citizens of the District have no legislature of their own, no representation in Congress, and no political power whatever. Maryland and Virginia have surrendered to the United States their "full and absolute right and entire sovereignty," and the people of the United States have committed to Congress by the Constitution, the power to "exercise exclusive ...

— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society

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