| 单词 | wraith-spell |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswraith-spell attributive and in other combinations, as wraith-land, wraith-seeing, wraith-ship, wraith-spell; wraith-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [adjective] > resembling a ghost ghost-like1573 spectred1791 ghostish1801 spectral1828 phantomish1832 wraith-like1865 ghosty1866 revenant1897 wraithly1909 1756 Yorkshire diary in Notes & Queries (1922) 390/2 For the warding off of all things whatsoever from the dead—be they imps, wraithspells, wick things and the like ket. 1865 J. Young Homely Pictures in Verse 126 Their leggies gat wraith-like, their cheekies gat death-like. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 405 In Silesia and the Tyrol the gift of wraith-seeing still flourishes. 1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 27 Apr. What challenges are prompted to the great..to come from their wraithlands! 1924 V. F. Boyson Falkland Islands viii. 181 Dimly as she came, so she passed away, as though in very truth the wraithship said to appear at every British naval fight. < as lemmas |
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