WRAITH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wraith mean? 

• WRAITH (noun)
  The noun WRAITH has 1 sense:

1. a mental representation of some haunting experience

  Familiarity information: WRAITH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WRAITH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mental representation of some haunting experience

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

ghost; shade; specter; spectre; spook; wraith

Context example:

it aroused specters from his past

Hypernyms ("wraith" is a kind of...):

apparition; fantasm; phantasm; phantasma; phantom; shadow (something existing in perception only)

 Context examples 

And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Then the wheels of memory slipped ahead through four years of time, and he was aware of the present, of the books he had opened and the universe he had won from their pages, of his dreams and ambitions, and of his love for a pale wraith of a girl, sensitive and sheltered and ethereal, who would die of horror did she witness but one moment of what he had just lived through—one moment of all the muck of life through which he had waded.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The hunting was perilous; yet the boats, lowered day after day, were swallowed up in the grey obscurity, and were seen no more till nightfall, and often not till long after, when they would creep in like sea-wraiths, one by one, out of the grey.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He did not give the complacent wraith any name, but he took her for his heroine and grew quite fond of her, as well he might, for he gifted her with every gift and grace under the sun, and escorted her, unscathed, through trials which would have annihilated any mortal woman.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Unlike man, whose gods are of the unseen and the overguessed, vapours and mists of fancy eluding the garmenture of reality, wandering wraiths of desired goodness and power, intangible out-croppings of self into the realm of spirit—unlike man, the wolf and the wild dog that have come in to the fire find their gods in the living flesh, solid to the touch, occupying earth-space and requiring time for the accomplishment of their ends and their existence.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Buck did not know of this, and as he rounded the bend, the frost wraith of a rabbit still flitting before him, he saw another and larger frost wraith leap from the overhanging bank into the immediate path of the rabbit.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)