phantasma

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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018

These thousand images, indeed, were but one; and yet the one was a thousand, a sort of uni-multiplex phantasma, which will be very intelligible to some understandings.

From Headlong Hall by Peacock, Thomas Love

Her ancient civility is gone, and her glory hath vanished as a phantasma.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 by Mabie, Hamilton Wright

Does the broken mirror within reflect back the countenance of real things, or shadows and shapes, crossed, mingled, and bewildered,—the phantasma of a sick man's dreams?

From The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Between the acting of a dreadful thing       And the first motion, all the interim is       Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney