revenants
- plural of revenant.
Example Sentences
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The imagery conjures a supernatural patchwork of revenants and Superman.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2024
In 1746, a Benedictine monk named Antoine Augustin Calmet published a popular treatise that sought, among other things, to distinguish real revenants from frauds.
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2023
It is apparent that they are revenants in a kind of afterlife, their only pleasure articles from old English magazines about fly fishing and cricket.
From The Guardian • Feb. 23, 2018
Any Jamesian will be surprised at how much new light Murphy casts on these eerie tales of revenants and demons.
From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2017
So tonight we sat and told our tales: Olakunde of Oyo, Pomp of marshy cunning-men and revenants, and me of Greece and Rome.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
