All 3 Uses of
apparition
in
All Quiet on the Western Front
- They are soundless apparitions that speak to me, with looks and gestures silently, without any word—
p. 120.7 *apparitions = ghostlike figures
- They arise no more; we are dead and they stand remote on the horizon, they are a mysterious reflection, an apparition, that haunts us, that we fear and love without hope.
p. 121.9apparition = ghostlike figure
- And at night, waking out of a dream, overwhelmed and bewitched by the crowding apparitions, a man perceives with alarm how slight is the support, how thin the boundary that divides him from the darkness.
p. 274.9apparitions = ghostlike figures
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.