spectre en · NOUN
Meanings
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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, […]
1849, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], “Old Maids”, in Shirley. A Tale. […], volume I, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, page 264:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| spectres | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Deriveds
spectrous · spectred · spectre of the Brocken · spectrelike · spectrology