phantomry

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

phantom +‎ -ry

Noun[edit]

phantomry (uncountable)

  1. Ghosts generally.
    • 1847, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, New Monthly Magazine, volume 79, page 112:
      Talk of maidens, youngsters, and adults delighting to revel in the perusal of such phantomry!
    • 1873, Anthony Trollope, Saint Pauls Magazine, volume 12, page 412:
      […] giant forms / Seen through the deepening gloom of fire-illumined vapour. / Saw I them? Or did the anguish of my spirit / Shape the wild phantomry?
    • 1950, Montague Summers, The Physical Phenomena Of Mysticism, page 19:
      […] but the teaching of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and herein lay an inexhaustible source of strength, utterly rejected this false spectral phantomry.
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