phantomry

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noun

Ghosts generally.

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounphantomry (uncountable)
  1. uncountableGhosts generally.

    Talk of maidens, youngsters, and adults delighting to revel in the perusal of such phantomry!

    1847, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, New Monthly Magazine, volume 79, page 112
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    […] 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?

    1873, Anthony Trollope, Saint Pauls Magazine, volume 12, page 412

    […] but the teaching of the Eleusinian Mysteries, and herein lay an inexhaustible source of strength, utterly rejected this false spectral phantomry.

    1950, Montague Summers, The Physical Phenomena Of Mysticism, page 19

Origin

From phantom + -ry.

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APA

phantomry. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phantomry

MLA

“phantomry.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phantomry. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “phantomry,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/phantomry.

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