Both Uses
apparition
in
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens
(Edited)
- Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?
p. 22.5 *apparition = ghostlike figure
- The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open.
p. 27.3
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.