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wraith

  [reyth]
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–noun
1. an apparition of a living person supposed to portend his or her death.
2. a visible spirit.
Origin:
1505–15; originally Scots; orig. uncert.

Related forms:
wraithlike, adjective
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wraith   (rāth)   
n.  

  1. An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.

  2. The ghost of a dead person.

  3. Something shadowy and insubstantial.


[Origin unknown.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

wraith 
1513, "ghost," Scottish, of uncertain origin. Weekley suggests O.N. vorðr "guardian" in the sense of "guardian angel." Klein points to Gael., Ir. arrach "specter, apparition."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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