Spectre vs Stigma - What's the difference?
spectre | stigma |
* Charlotte Brontë, Shirley
A mark of infamy or disgrace.
A scar or birthmark.
(botany) The sticky part of a flower that receives pollen during pollination.
a ligature of the Greek letters sigma and tau, ().
As nouns the difference between spectre and stigma
is that spectre is while stigma is stigma (mark of infamy).spectre
English
Noun
(en noun)- The spectre is a ghost of a decapitated young man.
- To this extenuated spectre , perhaps, a crumb is not thrown once a year, but when ahungered and athirst to famine—when all humanity has forgotten the dying tenant of a decaying house—Divine Mercy remembers the mourner