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Definition of Spectres
1. spectre [n] - See also: spectre
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spectres
Literary usage of Spectres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. President Dwight's Decisions of Questions Discussed by the Senior Class in by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"Do spectres appear ? Remark. That what is immaterial cannot reflect light is
nothing, as an objection to the appearance of spectres. Angels are seen. ..."
2. Teutonic Mythology by Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (1883)
"spectres. A preceding chapter has treated of Souls in their state of ...
These souls that appear, that come back, that haunt, we call spectres (ghosts). ..."
3. Narratives of the Witchcraft Cases, 1648-1706 by George Lincoln Burr (1914)
"As for the spectres that Visited and Afflicted Mercy Short, ... And concerning
these Diabolical spectres, wee mark'd sundry other Things that were beyond ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1841)
"•THE LAW OF spectres. ... the ring ordered, when you discover to your consternation
that your intended spouse in haunted by spectres, one or more. ..."
5. The New-York Reader (1815)
"The fear of spectres. ... occasion of terror and uneasiness to a number of people,
because they are tormented with the ridiculous apprehension of spectres. ..."
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