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ecce homo

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ec·ce ho·mo  (ks hm, k)
n.
A depiction of Jesus wearing the crown of thorns.
[Late Latin ecce hom, behold the man : Latin ecce, behold + Latin hom, man.]
Ecce Homo [ˈɛkeɪ ˈhəʊməʊ ˈɛksɪ]
n
(Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) a picture or sculpture of Christ crowned with thorns
[Latin: behold the man, the words of Pontius Pilate to his accusers (John 19:5)]
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Noun1.ecce homoecce homo - a representation (a picture or sculpture) of Jesus wearing a crown of thorns
representation - a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something


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And, as madness began to throttle his mind, he drifted off into the delirious auto-mythology of Ecce Homo ("I am not a man, I am dynamite," "Before me there was no psychology at all"), fantasizing about a splendid messianic apotheosis that never happened.
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Superficially, Ecce Homo seems an uninflectedly humanist statement; on this basis, both the UK broadsheets and the public at large gave its temporary installation a hearty thumbs-up.
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