All 4 Uses of
specter
in
The Communist Manifesto
- A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.†
*unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
- A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.†
- All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.†
- It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.†
Definition:
a frightening or disturbing mental image or possibility
or:
a ghostly appearing image
or:
a ghostly appearing image