Both Uses of
apparition
in
David Copperfield
- What the waiter thought of such a strange little apparition coming in all alone, I don't know; but I can see him now, staring at me as I ate my dinner, and bringing up the other waiter to look.†
Chpt 10-12 *apparition = a ghostlike figure or its appearance
- The shade of a young butcher rises, like the apparition of an armed head in Macbeth.†
Chpt 16-18
Definitions:
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(1)
(apparition as in: a headless apparition) a ghostlike figure or its appearance
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely, apparition can refer to any strange, other-worldly, thing or its appearance. Even more rarely, apparition can by a synonym for appearance. The Harry Potter series uses the word both ways.