Wraith
[reɪθ] or [reθ]
Definition
(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [Scottish.] Apparition, vision, spectre, ghost, unreal image.
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Definition
n. a spectre: an apparition in the exact likeness of a person seen before or soon after his death.
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Examples
- It was not my wraith, then? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Certainly the human nature that figures in most political thinking is a wraith that never was--not even in the souls of politicians. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- It is to be hoped their poor wraiths got something out of the display. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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