Significados de mere phantasm en inglés

The Leader's charismatic power is not a mere phantasm -none can doubt that millions believe in it.'

Porras assured them that no real caravel had arrived, but a mere phantasm conjured up by the admiral, who was deeply versed in necromancy.

Perhaps they believe that good and evil are mere phantasms?

Are you trying to tell me that the gondola and those men who took you away were mere phantasms?