Both Uses of
apparition
in
War and Peace
- Mademoiselle Bourienne was the first to recover herself after this apparition and began speaking about the prince's indisposition.†
Chpt 8 *apparition = a ghostlike figure or its appearance
- Timokhin, kept awake by the pain in his wounded leg, gazed with wide-open eyes at this strange apparition of a girl in a white chemise, dressing jacket, and nightcap.†
Chpt 11
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.