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Revenant vs Wraith - What's the difference?

revenant | wraith |

Wraith is a synonym of revenant.



As nouns the difference between revenant and wraith

is that revenant is someone who returns from a long absence while wraith is a ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.

As an adjective revenant

is Used as an adjective.

revenant

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who returns from a long absence.
  • * 1886 , Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew'' viii, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
  • They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
  • * 1895 August 31, Daily News'' 4/7, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
  • The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
  • * 2008 , Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature , Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1, page 91:
  • From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him:
  • A person or thing reborn.
  • * 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 184:
  • Sometimes semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
  • A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
  • * {{quote-book, 1969, , edition=2008 ed. citation
  • , passage=Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.}}

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    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • * 1988 , (Salman Rushdie), (The Satanic Verses) , Random House (2008), page 134:
  • On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.
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    wraith

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.
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  • , year=1917 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=A Princess of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. }}
  • * {{quote-book, passage=Like wraiths with the impediments of bodies they stumbled in the direction of Salthill faces.
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    Derived terms

    * wraithish * wraithful * wraithlike

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wraith")