NOUN
- an illusion that misleads
- a pale light sometimes seen at night over marshy ground
How To Use will-o'-the-wisp In A Sentence
- Full employment is the will-o'-the-wisp that politicians have been chasing for decades.
- When confronted by the sacraments crisis, Louis XV had tried desperately to avoid treading on clerical toes and had pursued the will-o'-the-wisp of a ‘third way’ that could unite moderates against the fanatics on both sides.
- Chasing a will-o'-the-wisp at night through the fog is insanity. A RAKE'S VOW
- Maria, on the other hand, is described by her fellow nuns as ‘a flibbertigibbet, a will-o'-the-wisp, a clown’.
- As the years passed, he became even more of a will-o'-the-wisp; not to be pinned down; difficult to track.
- Pale blue light, the colour of Egewe's hair or a will-o'-the-wisp, filled the room.
- He was a will-o'-the-wisp, more of a concept than a man.
- Chasing a will-o'-the-wisp at night through the fog is insanity. A RAKE'S VOW
- An 'says I to her:' Meg Kissock, ye're a bonny woman, 'says I.' My certie, but ye hae e'en like spunkies [will-o'-the-wisps] or maybes," said Saunders in a meditative tone. The Lilac Sunbonnet
- Five provinces have declared for young Stadt, and there will be inundation, conflagration, constupration, consternation, and every sort of nation and nations, fighting away, up to their knees, in the damnable quags of this will-o'-the-wisp abode of Boors. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals