spectre

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spectre

noun spectres

UK and Australia standard spelling of specter. To this extenuated spectre, perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year; but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner, […]

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Closest in meaning: specter, phantom, spook, ghost, wraith, apparition, shade, spirit, fantasy, figment, scope, breadth, illusion, argument, divide, gamut

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@misc{spectre_2026,
  title = {spectre},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/spectre},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}