Apparition
[æpə'rɪʃ(ə)n] or [,æpə'rɪʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly; 'natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger'.
(noun.) something existing in perception only; 'a ghostly apparition at midnight'.
(noun.) the appearance of a ghostlike figure; 'I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter'.
(noun.) a ghostly appearing figure; 'we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility.
(n.) The thing appearing; a visible object; a form.
(n.) An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom.
(n.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; -- opposed to occultation.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Ghost, spectre, phantom, phantasm, spirit, sprite, hobgoblin, shade, chimera, illusion, WRAITH, vision, preternatural appearance.
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Definition
n. an appearance—of a visitor a comet the appearance in history: an immaterial appearance—of a spirit of the departed as of a real being a ghost: (astron.) the first appearance of a celestial body after occultation.—adj. Appari′tional.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Take unusual care of all depending upon you. Calamity awaits you and yours. Both property and life are in danger. Young people should be decidedly upright in their communications with the opposite sex. Character is likely to be rated at a discount.
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Examples
- In a whisper, he explained to me the apparition of the three figures on the platform of rock. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition, &c. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- At another time we were haunted for several days by an apparition, to which our people gave the appellation of the Black Spectre. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The time occupied by the apparition of these meteors was comparatively short; suddenly the three mock suns united in one, and plunged into the sea. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition, or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- He fell backward in his chair, and, clasping his hands together, gazed on the apparition with a mingled look of abhorrence and fear. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The poor thing was probably dazzled by such an unwonted apparition. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Page one hundred and fifty-six as follows:--'I stood like one Thunderstruck, or as if I had seen an Apparition. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She would seize, she would fix the apparition, tell the vision revealed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He reminded her of an apparition, the young Hermes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The apparition had been transient--scarce seen ere gone; but its electric passage left her veins kindled, her soul insurgent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Does not the apparition make vividly manifest the obtuse mould of my heavy traits? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- All evening, though I tried to think of other things, my mind would still turn to the apparition at the window and the rudeness of the woman. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The shade of a young butcher rises, like the apparition of an armed head in Macbeth. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- His bushy light-brown curls, as well as his youthfulness, identified him at once with Celia's apparition. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But WERE such apparitions unwonted on Selden's stairs? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- They are such touches of nature as the art of Defoe might have introduced when he wished to win credibility for marvels and apparitions. Plato. The Republic.
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