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noun

Apparition n.

The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. "The sudden apparition of the Spaniards." "The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much speculation in that portion of the world."

The thing appearing; a visible object; a form. "Which apparition, it seems, was you."

An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance; a ghost; a specter; a phantom. "The heavenly bands... a glorious apparition." "I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition."

(Astron.) The first appearance of a star or other luminary after having been invisible or obscured; opposed to occultation.

Circle of perpetual apparition. See under Circle.

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Etymology of 'Apparition'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Apparition" Quotes from Famous Books

... with a still, white face walking through the room. She was in the middle of the room when they caught sight of her, and they both screamed and covered their faces with their hands. So great was her terror that she almost fainted; then in a few moments when they looked the apparition had vanished. As to the habit she was wearing, neither of them could say afterwards what it was like: only the white, still face remained fixed in their memory, but the figure was a dark one, like a dark shadow ...

— Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn • William Henry Hudson

... a little grim, yet pleased at so finding herself, she steps into this chamber of old memories and cherished possessions, which translation to another and a better world has made hers again. For a moment she sees the desire of her eyes and is satisfied; but for a moment only. The apparition of another already ...

— Angels & Ministers • Laurence Housman

... the astronomer, Not thus idly dancing goes Flushing the eternal orchard with wild rose. She through ether burns Outpacing planetary earth, And ere two years triumphantly returns, And again wave-like swelling flows, And again her flashing apparition ...

— Poems New and Old • John Freeman

... His sudden apparition was a great surprise, as well as a great disappointment, for we had felt sure that he was not in the city, and I, at least, had persuaded myself that he might be in disgrace for his attempt on our lives. Yet here he was, apparently on terms of confidence ...

— A Columbus of Space • Garrett P. Serviss

... observed; but there was mischief brewing, for all that, and the crisis was close at hand. Just as the van passed under the railway arch that spans the Hyde-road at Bellevue, a point midway between the city police office and the Salford gaol, the driver was suddenly startled by the apparition of a man standing in the middle of the road with a pistol aimed at his head, and immediately the astonished policeman heard himself called upon, in a loud, sharp voice, to "pull up." At the spot where this unwelcome interruption occurred there are but few houses; brick-fields and clay-pits ...

— The Dock and the Scaffold • Unknown

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