phantomwise

adv

phantomwise

adv

Etymology From phantom + -wise.

1

In the manner of a phantom; ghostlily.

Still she haunts me, phantomwise, / Alice moving under skies / Never seen by waking eyes.1871, Lewis Carroll, “A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There:

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