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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 [reɪθ]
n
1. (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) the apparition of a person living or thought to be alive, supposed to appear around the time of his death
2. (Spirituality, New Age, Astrology & Self-help / Alternative Belief Systems) a ghost or any apparition
3. an insubstantial copy of something
4. something pale, thin, and lacking in substance, such as a column of smoke
[Scottish, of unknown origin]
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"
fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow, apparition - something existing in perception only; "a ghostly apparition at midnight"

wraith
noun ghost, spirit, shade (literary), phantom, spectre, spook (informal), apparition, revenant, eidolon She believed herself to have been visited by wraiths from the afterlife.
Translations
wraith [reɪθ] Nfantasma m
wraith
nGespenst nt, → Geist m
wraith [reɪθ] nspettro
wraith [reɪθ] nspettro


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Parallel to this slunk Numa, while above him Tarzan moved through the trees, the shadow of a wraith.
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.
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.
 
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