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- noun The condition, state, or realm of ghosts or spirits;
spirituality ;spiritualism .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Killing off Alan Quartermaine and vanquishing Stuart Damon to ghostdom was final and unnecessary.
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He has been as active as the next man since his arrival in ghostdom.
Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn
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If any of our deputies from ghostdom formerly belonged to the court of Fergus MacErc, or originally sailed across with him in his fleet of _currachs_, perhaps they will be so good as tell us if in reality the royal or any other of the accompanying skin-canoes was ballasted then or subsequently with a sacred stone from Ireland, for the coronation of our first Dalriadic king; and especially would we wish it explained to us how such a precious monument as the _Lia Fail_ of Tara was or could be smuggled away by such a small tribe as the Dalriadic Scots at first were?
Archaeological Essays, Vol. 1 James Young Simpson 1840
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Yet I'm bound to say I have never been nearer ghostdom than now; a day of this moor would mean death to me. "
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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