spright
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spright
- /spɹaɪt/
Rhymes with -aɪt
Where it comes from
Unetymological spelling of sprite. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and esprit.
noun sprights
- Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. Well may I ween, your grief is wondrous great; / For wondrous great griefe groneth in my ſpright, / Whiles thus I heare you of your ſorrowes treat.
- A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, [...]
- A kind of short arrow.
verb sprights · sprighting · sprighted
- To haunt. I am sprighted with a fool ; Frighted , and anger'd worse
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title = {spright},
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