fantasm
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Other Word Forms
- fantasmal adjective
- fantasmally adverb
Example Sentences
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"Then I was right in calling you a dreamer, for love itself is a fantasm inspired by hope or memory."
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Is what we call Duty no divine messenger and guide, but a false, earthly fantasm, made up of Desire and Fear?'
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But at lowest, O dilettante friend, let us know always that it was a world, and not a void infinite of gray haze with fantasms swimming in it.
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But at lowest, O dilettante friend, let us know always that it was a world, and not a void infinite of grey haze with fantasms swimming in it.
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They had been shooting at only fantasms of their own brains.
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