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Ghostly   /gˈoʊstli/   Listen
adjective
Ghostly  adj.  
1.
Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. "Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies." "One of the gostly children of St. Jerome."
2.
Of or pertaining to apparitions.


adverb
Ghostly  adv.  Spiritually; mystically.





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"Ghostly" Quotes from Famous Books



... blamed if my suddenly aroused and somewhat bemused senses played tricks with me, and my startled imagination began to conjure up the gruesome stories I had heard of weird visitants, and ghostly beings, heard but seldom seen, on the East Anglian meres and broads? Then again came the remembrance of the shriek or cry I had fancied I heard earlier in the night, and with a shudder I thought: "How ghastly if it should be the drowned body of him whose cry I had heard, knocking thus in grisly ...
— Adventures in Many Lands • Various
... with shame, as it abased me then, that for hours, while the darkness fell and the stars began their march over the tree-tops, the ghostly intruder kept watch with me as a bodily presence mocking us both, benumbing my efforts to sorrow. . . . Nor did it fade until calm came to me, recalled by the murmur of unseen waters. Listening to them I let my thoughts ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... mother, smiling at his enthusiasm, "that since you seem to like the ghostly part, you would be more than ever pleased with the attic ...
— Billie Bradley and Her Inheritance - The Queer Homestead at Cherry Corners • Janet D. Wheeler
... effect of producing in her that maddening fear of the dark which ghostly tales induce, and now he fainted again. She was afraid to cry for help, afraid even of the rustle of her own garments. She did not know how far she was from any house. And it seemed to her that this lover, who was almost a ...
— The Mormon Prophet • Lily Dougall
... and seeing him changed of colour and conduct asked him, "What is with thee to do, and what ill hast thou to rue that thy case and complexion are so changed to view?" "O Fakir," answered the other, "verily a matter of marvel hath betided me and I know not how to act therein." Quoth the ghostly man, "And what may that be?" whereupon the Merchant related to him all his affair first and last, and how he had heard a Voice saying to him, "In very deed thy daughter shall conceive after unlawful fashion by the King's son of Al-Irak." The Darwaysh was surprised on ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton


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