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Definition of Spectre
Spectre

A mountain specter (which see), esp. that observed on the Brocken, in the Harz Mountains.

Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom.

The tarsius.

A stick insect.

See Specter.

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Spectre Quotations

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.
Thomas Huxley

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The rapid dissemination of technology and information offers entirely new ways of production, but it can also bring the spectre of more states developing weapons of mass destruction.
Lord Robertson

Spectre Translations

spectre in German is Gespenst, Schreckgespenst
spectre in Hungarian is szellem


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