"phasm" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Latin phasma or Ancient Greek φάσμα (phásma). See phase.",
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          "ref": "1654, H[enry] Hammond, Of Fundamentals in a Notion Referring to Practise, London: […] J[ames] Flesher for Richard Royston, […], →OCLC:",
          "text": "For heart is besides that from thence proceed many aerial fictions , and not from God, phasms, and chimeras , created by the vanity of our own hearts",
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          "ref": "1677, Sir Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels into Africa and Asia the Great:",
          "text": "After a small space the lights‥extinguish, and‥the Phasma having assumed a bodily shape or other false representation accompanies her.",
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        "An apparition; a phantom."
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        "(obsolete) An apparition; a phantom."
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