errand-ghost

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A spirit or spiritual messenger; an angel.
    — Their simple directness of character may account for the well-nigh entire absence (as I said before) of all expression of religious hope. "God's Errand-Ghost," the Rider on the Pale Horse, has passed by that way, and one in the house — it may be the most loved of all, — is dead. There is no shirking of that bare truth, no attempt to soften it.
  2. Any spirit or ghostly messenger. broadly
    — In regard of the previous question – do you also choose empty localizations deliberately? Is this to strengthen the fright for loneliness and silence, the same fright that the errand ghost of those haunted places feels?

词形变化

errand-ghosts plural errand ghost alternative

词源

From errand + ghost, a modern calque of Old English ǣrendgāst (“spiritual messenger, angel”).
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