Wraith

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wraith \Wraith\, n. [Scot. wraith, warth; probably originally, a
     guardian angel, from Icel. v["o]r[eth]r a warden, guardian,
     akin to E. ward. See {Ward} a guard.]
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     1. 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.]
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              She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her
              wraith.                               --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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              O, hollow wraith of dying fame.       --Tennyson.
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     2. Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over
        the waters; -- called also {water wraith}. --M. G. Lewis.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  wraith
       n : a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he
           looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters
           from his past" [syn: {ghost}, {shade}, {spook}, {specter},
            {spectre}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "wraith":
     Doppelganger, Masan, apparition, appearance, astral, astral spirit,
     banshee, co-walker, control, departed spirit, disembodied spirit,
     double, doubleganger, duppy, dybbuk, eidolon, etheric double,
     fantasy, fetch, figure, form, ghost, grateful dead, guide, hant,
     haunt, idolum, image, immateriality, incorporeal,
     incorporeal being, incorporeity, larva, lemures, manes,
     materialization, oni, phantasm, phantasma, phantasmagoria, phantom,
     poltergeist, presence, revenant, shade, shadow, shape,
     shrouded spirit, specter, spectral ghost, spirit, spook, sprite,
     theophany, unsubstantiality, vision, waking dream,
     walking dead man, wandering soul, wildest dream, zombie