wraith
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
wraith (plural wraiths)
- A ghost#Noun|ghost or specter, especially a person's likeness seen just after their death.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:ghost
- 1912 February–July, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Under the Moons of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., OCLC 17392886 ↗; republished as “Sola Tells Me Her Story”, in A Princess of Mars, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., 1917, OCLC 419578288 ↗, pages 159–160 ↗:
- We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing.
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