Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being a ghost.

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Examples

  • She usually wore a light gauzy dress that lent her an ethereal quality strongly reminiscent of her ghosthood, yet failed to conceal excitingly gentle contours beneath.

    Falcon Street 2010

  • And James A. Garfield, the Pride of the West, twentieth President of the United States, was shot and killed alright – the sort of abrupt ending that gives rise to ghosthood.

    The Death of James A. Garfield « A Fly in Amber 2008

  • I was one of the ghosthood of Mexican-Americans who lurked in the background of other people's lives – as chambermaids and bus-boys and gardeners.

    Vanishing Acts Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 2005

  • She thinks it helps people move past ghosthood to whatever’s beyond.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • She thinks it helps people move past ghosthood to whatever’s beyond.

    Shade Jeri Smith-Ready 2010

  • But as for Scientology itself, well, I’m not down with Xenu using DC-8s to transport billions of people to volcanoes for the purpose of nuking them into malevolent ghosthood, but then I’m not down with Yahweh blinking the universe into existence in six days and then kicking Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because they decided to make a fruit plate, either.

    Writers of the Future, Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard « Whatever 2008

  • But as for Scientology itself, well, I’m not down with Xenu using DC-8s to transport billions of people to volcanoes for the purpose of nuking them into malevolent ghosthood, but then I’m not down with Yahweh blinking the universe into existence in six days and then kicking Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden because they decided to make a fruit plate, either.

    2008 February 06 « Whatever 2008

  • I was one of the ghosthood of Mexican-Americans who lurked in the background of other people’s lives—as chambermaids and busboys and gardeners.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • I was one of the ghosthood of Mexican-Americans who lurked in the background of other people’s lives—as chambermaids and busboys and gardeners.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

  • I was one of the ghosthood of Mexican-Americans who lurked in the background of other people’s lives—as chambermaids and busboys and gardeners.

    VANISHING ACTS JODI PICOULT 2005

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