[ UK /ˌæpəɹˈɪʃən/ ]
[ US /ˌæpɝˈɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a ghostly appearing figure
    we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
  2. something existing in perception only
    a ghostly apparition at midnight
  3. the appearance of a ghostlike figure
    I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter
  4. an act of appearing or becoming visible unexpectedly
    natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger
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How To Use apparition In A Sentence

  • Believing in the authenticity of such apparitions is not even a requirement of Catholic faith.
  • As I pressed through the thick underwood, I startled a strange-looking apparition in one of the open spaces beside the gulf, where, as shown by the profusion of plants of _vaccinium_, the blaeberries had greatly abounded in their season. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
  • He stared at the strange apparition before him.
  • The fact is that our founders did not give us a nation frightened by the apparition of the Deity lurking about in our most central places.
  • She said the tiny lights I kept seeing were the apparition's energy. Times, Sunday Times
  • They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master.
  • The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost, and the apparitions is a key element in making the concept of the play work and in making the play interesting.
  • On his abrupt and unexpected apparition, Diana paled and Ruth flushed slightly, whereupon Sir Rowland might have bethought him, had he been book-learned, of the axiom, "Amour qui rougit, fleurette; amour qui plit, drame du coeur. Mistress Wilding
  • One only has to witness the apparition, the manifestation.
  • Beneath the surface the green gloom parted to reveal the foggy apparition of the cutter's mast pointing us down towards the wreck.
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