Definition: (noun) An object or a source of fear, dread, or harassment.
Synonyms: bugbear.
Usage: But this encompassment of her own characterization ... was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy—a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.
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