All 7 Uses of
apparition
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Lourdes cure, waters of oblivion, and the Knock apparition, statues bleeding.†
Chpt 5apparition = a ghostlike figure or its appearance
- In the darkness spirit hands were felt to flutter and when prayer by tantras had been directed to the proper quarter a faint but increasing luminosity of ruby light became gradually visible, the apparition of the etheric double being particularly lifelike owing to the discharge of jivic rays from the crown of the head and face.†
Chpt 12
- The apparitions of Knock and Lourdes.†
Chpt 15apparitions = ghostlike figures or their appearances
- Of what similar apparitions did Stephen think?†
Chpt 17
- It comes when he is abandoned and challenges him reluctant and, as an apparition of hope and youth, holds him unresisting.†
Chpt 17apparition = a ghostlike figure or its appearance
- The disparition of three final stars, the diffusion of daybreak, the apparition of a new solar disk.†
Chpt 17 *
- Once, in 1887, after a protracted performance of charades in the house of Luke Doyle, Kimmage, he had awaited with patience the apparition of the diurnal phenomenon, seated on a wall, his gaze turned in the direction of Mizrach, the east.†
Chpt 17
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) 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.