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Apparitional

Apˊpa-ri′tion-al

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Adj.
Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral.
“An apparitional soul.”
Tylor.

Definition 2024


apparitional

apparitional

English

Adjective

apparitional (comparative more apparitional, superlative most apparitional)

  1. (religion, forteana) Of or pertaining to an apparition or apparitions; ghostly; immaterial; spectral.
    • 1908, Henry James, "The Jolly Corner," ch. 2,
      People enough, first and last, had been in terror of apparitions, but who had ever before so turned the tables and become himself, in the apparitional world, an incalculable terror?

Synonyms

  • See also Wikisaurus:ghostly

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