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noun

Wraith 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. (Scot.) "She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith." "O, hollow wraith of dying fame."

Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; called also water wraith.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... The wraith-like figure before him was only too clearly flesh and blood, and, as he stepped forward, it moved quickly across, and stood, barring his way, on the top stone step of the ...

— Defenders of Democracy • Militia of Mercy

... up stairs, and threw himself upon the bed. And outside he still heard Sheila singing lightly to herself as she went about her ordinary duties, little thinking in how strange and wild a drama her wraith had ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various

... at his prayers—she is dead though; for I heard her wraith wailing and shrieking up the woods that night as I stood in the priory close. It seemed like, as it were, making its way through the air from Lathom, for the ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) • John Roby

... wraith of red, O blush but yet in prophecy, O sun-hint that hath overspread Sky, marsh, ...

— The Poems of Sidney Lanier • Sidney Lanier

... I stubbornly protested. "He did not even call the vision he encountered a woman. It was a wraith, you remember, a dream-maiden, a creature of his own imagination, born of some tragedy he ...

— Room Number 3 - and Other Detective Stories • Anna Katharine Green

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