apparition
a puh ri shuhn
- n a ghostly appearing figure
we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us - n the appearance of a ghostlike figure
I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter - n something existing in perception only
a ghostly apparition at midnight - n an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly
natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger
- The editors were so impressed when she walked into the office ("An extraordinary apparition," said one) that they put a sketch of her on the January 1965 cover, and she was soon .
- Their descriptions of the apparition varied, but they agreed that the mysterious flares stuck close to their planes and appeared to follow them at high speed for miles.
- An apparition of Christ becomes a reflection of troubled times TRAVEL WATCH: Masssaged and Masqued in the New Hawaii.