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apparition
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ap·pa·ri·tion
/ ˌapəˈrishən/
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n.
a ghost or ghostlike image of a person.
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the appearance of something remarkable or unexpected, typically an image of this type.
DERIVATIVES:
ap·pa·ri·tion·al
/ -shənl/ adj.
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Apparitions and the public sphere in seventeenth-century France.
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...to write about apparitions to explore the...Within weeks, apparition pamphlets attacking...the Fronde, the apparition pamphlets explore...people visited by apparitions during the Fronde...crisis from the apparitions that later empowers...the queen. The apparition pamphlets are part...
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Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 7/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra. By...beginning of a long series of alleged apparitions, which continued for about ten years...purposes, the episode of the Oliveto Citra apparitions is closed. This book is about the phenomenon...
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BEAUTY BEAT: UNGARO'S APPARITION GETS A GUY...YSL U.S. UNIT SHIFTS GEARS.
Magazine article from: WWD; 7/11/2005; 700+ words
; ...Matthew W. Evans Ungaro's Apparition Gets a Guy NEW YORK -- A year...introduced his women's scent, Apparition, the designer is launching...called, naturally enough, Apparition Homme. "This is his newest...
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What's in a vision? (holy apparitions) (Horizons)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 3/12/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...may be an authentic apparition of Mary than it has...cannot simply ignore the apparitions or dismiss them out...itself is founded on an apparition-that of Christ resurrected...has authenticated 14 apparitions as "worthy of pious...for every certified apparition, say church authorities...
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Apparition in Ireland helps a Kettering University faculty member win a top Irish Studies book award.
Newspaper article from: Biotech Week; 6/3/2009; 700+ words
; ...award-winning book that examines an apparition in Knock, Ireland, in 1879 and its...Mary Beirne stood bewildered at the apparition cast against the gable wall of the local...and St. John. As night fell and the apparition remained, Beirne summoned her family...
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"Seeing and feeling ghosts": absorption, fantasy proneness, and healthy schizotypy as predictors of crisis apparition experiences.(Report)
Magazine article from: The Journal of Parapsychology; 9/22/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...range). Evans (1984) places the apparition in the broader context of the "entity experience." Apparitions of the dead (ghosts) are usually...dying are of two types. A crisis apparition occurs when the witness supposedly...
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Seeing Mary. (Books).(God-Sent: A History of the Accredited Apparitions of Mary)(Book Review)
Newspaper article from: Cross Currents; 9/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...introduction to modern apparitions. God-Sent does not attempt...or cultural context of apparitions. Its main purpose, despite...phenomena" of Marian apparitions. Varghese begins by defining "apparition" and surveying the veneration...
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Visions of the Virgin; Miraculous sighting: Gable wall at Knock, where an apparition of the Blessed Virgin occurred in 1879.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 1/16/2008; 700+ words
; QUESTION How many Marian apparitions have there been and are theyconfined...Catholics? THE very first Marian apparition was seen in AD39 in Zaragoza...agedfrom 15 to 75, saw apparitions including the Blessed Virgin...most extraordinary Marian apparitions was seen in 1531 by a57...
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Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: Local Visions and Cosmic Drama.
Magazine article from: Church History; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; Apparitions of the Madonna at Oliveto Citra: Local...50 cloth. The iconography of Marian apparitions is familiar: a girl or a group of children...Contemporary scholarship on Marian apparitions revises this image. To render the Madonna...
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Conference on apparitions of the Virgin Mary to be held at A.J. Palumbo Center.
PR Newswire; 3/8/1990; 700+ words
; ...who prophesied the apparitions of Mary at Medjugorje...Ministries said the first apparition of this century, which...Portugal, in 1917. Other apparitions have been reported...continued, recent apparitions were reported by a...including shooting at the apparition. The reported messages...
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Apparitions of the Virgin Mary
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Apparitions of the Virgin Mary Within...larger consideration of apparition, a special place has been given to apparitions of one figure, the Virgin...50th anniversary of the apparition. Many of the apparitions during the first centuries...
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Apparitions
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Apparitions An apparition, from Latin apparere...Evolution of the Belief in Apparitions The belief that identifies an apparition with the spirit of...development of a belief in apparitions. It is believed that the apparition of a deceased person...
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Apparitions of Holy Figures
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained
Apparitions of Holy Figures...with seeing an apparition of Jesus Christ...of significant apparitions of Mother Mary...detailed a series of apparitions of Mary in the...have beheld the apparition of a beautiful...
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apparition
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
apparition spiritualistic manifestation...and widespread belief in apparitions and ghosts (specters...and motion of its own. Apparitions, especially particular...senses. The most evil apparitions are said to be those of...
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Guadalupe Apparitions (of the Virgin Mary)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology
Guadalupe Apparitions (of the Virgin Mary) Guadalupe...According to the popular account of the apparition, a young Aztec Indian named Juan Diego...unmistakable sign of the genuineness of the apparition. After the boy had gone he instructed...
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