specter Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˈspek.tər]
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Meaning of specter In English

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Examples of specter

  • Work on the project paid poorly and involved high risks : permanent disability and death were a constant specter.

  • These and other developments raised the specter of a southern racism on the march - a northward march.

  • Even after more than a decade of democratic rule, a substantial majority is still haunted by the specter of a repressive state to varying degrees.

  • I mention the pauper funeral here because its specter motivated members of the working class to avoid its ignominy at whatever cost.

  • But why did the specter of racial change elicit such a reaction then and not other times-to the creation of minority majority districts for example?

  • Our speculation directly stems from this specular image and reflects back our own specter and thus our own reading process.

  • And this is the final specter, the zero degree of the reader.

  • On one hand, the specter of "cloned" human beings produced through reproductive cloning is widely rejected as an illegitimate field of scientific endeavor.

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