All 5 Uses of
apparition
in
Frankenstein
- We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in reality, so distant as we had supposed.†
Chpt Intr.
- The apparition was soon explained.†
Chpt 1 *
- I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit.†
Chpt 4
- Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace of him I should despair and die, left some mark to guide me.†
Chpt 24
- His tale is connected and told with an appearance of the simplest truth, yet I own to you that the letters of Felix and Safie, which he showed me, and the apparition of the monster seen from our ship, brought to me a greater conviction of the truth of his narrative than his asseverations, however earnest and connected.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(apparition as in: a headless apparition) a ghostlike figure or its appearance