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apparition
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Apparition is a 1982 synthpop album by The Legendary Pink Dots .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Apparition \Ap`pa*ri"tion\, n. [F. apparition, L. apparitio, fr. apparere. See Appear .] The act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility. --Milton. The sudden apparition of the Spaniards. --Prescott. The apparition of Lawyer Clippurse occasioned much ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB see ▪ He saw that the white apparition was a dead swan. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ a ghostly apparition ▪ The apparition ran silently across the lobby and disappeared through a window. ▪ The women said they saw an ...
Usage examples of apparition.
Taylor, bishop of Down, Connor, and Dromore, after strictly examining Taverner anent the whole matter, expressed his belief in the realness of the apparition.
A most imperial and archangelical apparition of that unfallen, western world, which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god, bluff-bowed and fearless as this mighty steed.
CHAPTER XXIV--Locarno We were attracted to Locarno by the approaching fetes in honour of the fourth centenary of the apparition of the Virgin Mary to Fra Bartolomeo da Ivrea, who founded the sanctuary in consequence.
Son apparition avait produit sur ce groupe de jeunes filles un effet singulier.
And a part of him was glad for that: physical undead or vicious apparition, he was fairly certain that her spirit, by the grace of the sword bestowed on him by the entelechy of dreams, had found its destined rest.
In both instances an assortment of spectacularly hideous alien apparitions visible and audible only to his chemically altered perception fumed powerlessly at him, threatening with tentacles and teeth, with razor-edged suckers and wet, unclean fumy lips.
Only poor Bertodulos, who joined them in order to admire the fustanella, shrank back into the house as soon as he saw the apparition of the departed.
I doubt whether Donne the man gave more than playful and dramatic harbourage to the mood expressed in The Apparition.
The Space Ranger did not move or speak, and Hennes found his eyes fastened upon the apparition.
I stared at this sinister apparition crawling towards me, I felt a tickling on my cheek as though a fly had lighted there.
Belief in them had become a mark of inferiority, like the allied belief in madstones, magic and apparitions.
Valentine, accredited Necromance, performing an apparition on the body of Christabel Moorcock, also accredited Necromance.
Lord Afton gravely regarded the dappled apparition that stared up at him, tail twitching, and then raised his eyes to the doorway where Pippin stood.
Oregon grape and salal, and the dank mossy forest of the Marian apparitions were all poorly served by the mass of travelers, who stormed through them like Roman legionnaires.
At dusk these apparitions were paraded through the streets with the Premia Sancta and Premio Sancto leading the way, intoning prayers.