phantasma
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of phantasma
Borrowed into English from Latin around 1590–1600
Example Sentences
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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018
Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.
From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney
Waken her, Burbon, and this loving charme, Which now hath led your sences prisoner, Will vanish, and her speach, full of reproofe, Beget a new phantasma all of hate.
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)
For a short while the flaming phantasma lingered firm and orb-like, while the space between itself and reality grew to a hand's breadth; then slowly deliquesced.
From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Douglas, Norman
Thoughts of painful, almost chaotic bewilderment indeed, so chased each other across his mind as to render the scene around him indistinct, the many faces and eager voices like the phantasma of a dream.
From The Vale of Cedars by Aguilar, Grace
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