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

The body of Christ was regarded by Marcion merely as an "umbra", a "phantasma."

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

With eyes tight closed one may conjure up the phantasma of green leaves waving and of meadows knee-deep with lush grasses and starred with ox-eyes.

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel

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

From The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni by Manzoni, Alessandro

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