Both Uses of
apparition
in
The Poisonwood Bible
- Every few weeks he turned up without warning, a sudden apparition in rotten boots and sweat-stained fedora, smoking Tiparillos in my doorway and demanding money for things that were already ours, donated by the Mission League.†
Chpt 2apparition = a ghostlike figure or its appearance
- July had brought us only the strange apparition of the family Fowles, and in its aftermath, the conviction in all our separate minds that their visit could only have been a dream.†
Chpt 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) 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.