fantasm
Americannoun
noun
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The Provincetown Players started their season with a foggy fantasm called The Crime in the Whistler Room and critics sighed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Jacqueline, young, was a dream; Jacqueline, old, was a fantasm.
From Throckmorton by Seawell, Molly Elliot
"Then I was right in calling you a dreamer, for love itself is a fantasm inspired by hope or memory."
From With Edge Tools by Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)
Is what we call Duty no divine messenger and guide, but a false, earthly fantasm, made up of Desire and Fear?'
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas
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