All 3 Uses of
specter
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Stephen smiled again in answer to the smile which he could not see on the priest's shadowed face, its image or spectre only passing rapidly across his mind as the low discreet accent fell upon his ear.†
Chpt 4
- Was it not a mental spectre of the face of one of the jesuits whom some of the boys called Lantern Jaws and others Foxy Campbell?†
Chpt 4 *
- The formula which he wrote obediently on the sheet of paper, the coiling and uncoiling calculations of the professor, the spectre-like symbols of force and velocity fascinated and jaded Stephen's mind.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(specter as in: specter of national poverty) a frightening or disturbing mental image or possibility
or:
a ghostly appearing image