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wraith

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wraith  (rth)
n.
1. An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.
2. The ghost of a dead person.
3. Something shadowy and insubstantial.
[Origin unknown.]
wraith
Noun
Literary a ghost [Scots]
wraithlike adj
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.wraithwraith - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
ghost, specter, spectre, spook, shade
fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"


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Parallel to this slunk Numa, while above him Tarzan moved through the trees, the shadow of a wraith.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Forasmuch as it is ordained of God that all flesh hath spirit and thereby taketh on spiritual powers, so, also, the spirit hath powers of the flesh, even when it is gone out of the flesh and liveth as a thing apart, as many a violence performed by wraith and lemure sheweth.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
Buck did not know of this, and as he rounded the bend, the frost wraith of a rabbit still flitting before him, he saw another and larger frost wraith leap from the overhanging bank into the immediate path of the rabbit.
The Call of the Wild by London, Jack View in context
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