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

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

The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

Next morning at breakfast, the inquisitor apologized for the disturbance, and said the boy's alarm proceeded from a phantasma animi,—phantom of the imagination.

From Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal by Richardson, Sarah J.

And yet for very sorriness I cannot own the weird phantasma real!

From The Dynasts by Hardy, Thomas