Synonyms for wraith
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : reyth |
| Phonetic Transcription : reɪθ |
Définition of wraith
Origin :- 1510s, "ghost," Scottish, of uncertain origin. Weekley suggests Old Norse vorðr "guardian" in the sense of "guardian angel." Klein points to Gaelic and Irish arrach "specter, apparition."
- noun ghost
- In the strange illumination of the search beams he seemed the wraith of a scarecrow.
- Extract from : « Slaves of Mercury » by Nat Schachner
- Across the stair she wavered, a wraith blown across the gulf of time.
- Extract from : « Melomaniacs » by James Huneker
- They had him, but it was like getting hold of an apparition, a wraith, a portent.
- Extract from : « Lord Jim » by Joseph Conrad
- Was she a woman or a wraith, this slender thing swaying in the candle-light?
- Extract from : « Glory of Youth » by Temple Bailey
- This apparition of a friend has in the Scotch wraith, or Irish fetch its counterpart.
- Extract from : « Welsh Folk-Lore » by Elias Owen
- Sometimes he smiled at her; sometimes at the wraith in the rafters.
- Extract from : « The Secret of the Storm Country » by Grace Miller White
- How could this wraith, this apparition, do us physical injury!
- Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings
- A wraith of Tako was there, stricken as though numbed by surprise….
- Extract from : « The White Invaders » by Raymond King Cummings
- I think it was the image of my robust self as a wraith that did it.
- Extract from : « The Friendly Road » by (AKA David Grayson) Ray Stannard Baker
- He was not a wraith, no grisly spectre, no half-nebulous Shape.
- Extract from : « The Return of Peter Grimm » by David Belasco
Antonyms for wraith
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