Wraith
WordNet
noun
(1) A mental representation of some haunting experience
"He looked like he had seen a ghost"
"It aroused specters from his past"
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Etymology
From , probably originally a guardian angel from .
Quotations
- Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces. - "Middle Age : A Romance" (2001) by Joyce Carol Oates (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 80)