APPARITION


Meaning of APPARITION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

see

He saw that the white apparition was a dead swan.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

a ghostly apparition

The apparition ran silently across the lobby and disappeared through a window.

The women said they saw an apparition in the church, next to the altar.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

All over Ireland, posters advertise pilgrim coach tours to Knock, a town famous for apparitions of the Virgin Mary.

Delia Sutherland did not need to go nearer to know who they were - apparitions of herself, her father.

He goes on to relate many other such stories, mainly involving apparitions on the mission field.

He wanted to run, to hit out, to lash at this evil apparition .

Johnnie stood at the tideline, a virginal apparition begging him to come out.

Since 1972 many more apparitions as well as statues of the Virgin that weep and move have been reported.

The terrorized novice promptly returned it, claiming that he was being haunted by apparitions for his act.

There were also stories circulating that he had been the beneficiary of Marian apparitions.

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