wraith(n = noun.cognition) ghost, shade, specter, spectre, spook - a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
is a kind of apparition, fantasm, phantasm, phantasma, phantom, shadow
1. An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image. [1913 Webster]
"She was uncertain if it were the gypsy or her wraith." [1913 Webster]
"O, hollow wraith of dying fame." [1913 Webster]
2. Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also
wraith, n.
1 a ghost or apparition.
2 the spectral appearance of a living person supposed to portend that person's death.
Derivative:
wraithlike adj.
Etymology:
16th-c. Sc.: orig. unkn.
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