noun
definition
A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
example
A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.
definition
A threatening mental image.
Examples of spectres in a Sentence
As wife of Pluto, she sent spectres, ruled the ghosts, and carried into effect the curses of men.
Famished persons are liable to morbid excite ment, and fall into imaginative ecstasies, in the course of which they see visions and spectres, converse with gods and angels, and are the recipients of supernatural revelations.
Camille Lemonnier has given in one of his Causeries a striking picture of this faded scene of former greatness, now a solitude in which the few residents seem spectres rather than living figures.
Austria, too, now that the revolutionary spectres of 1830 had been laid, was reverting to her traditional opposition to Russia in the affairs of the Near East, and Metternich supported Palmerston's proposal of an international conference at Vienna.