Both Uses of
apparition
in
The Hidden Oracle
- Weaving through the traffic, closing in on us rapidly, were three glittery, vaguely humanoid apparitions—like billowing plumes from smoke grenades touched by King Midas.†
p. 50.6apparitions = ghostlike figures or their appearances
- We swerved into an industrial area of dilapidated warehouses, the smoking apparitions still closing in behind us.†
p. 51.1 *
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.