wight English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) . See also (l).
The meaning of the wraith-like creature is from barrow-wights in world.
Noun
( en noun)
(archaic) A living creature, especially a human being.
* circa 1602 , , act 1, scene 3:
- O base Hungarian wight ! wilt thou the spigot wield?
* 1626 , , verse vi
- Oh say me true if thou wert mortal wight
And why from us so quickly thou didst take thy flight.
(paganism) A being of one of the Nine Worlds of heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
(poetic) A ghost or other supernatural entity.
* 1789 , , lines 14-15-16
- But I saw a glow-worm near,
Who replied: ‘What wailing wight
Calls the watchman of the night?
(fantasy) A wraith-like creature.
Etymology 2
From (etyl), from (etyl) [Merriam-Webster, 1974.].
Adjective
(head)
(archaic except in dialects ) Brave, valorous, strong.
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*:I haue two sones that were but late made knyghtes / and the eldest hyghte sir Tirre // and my yongest sone hyght Lauayne / and yf hit please yow / he shalle ryde with yow vnto that Iustes / and he is of his age x stronge and wyght
Strong; stout; active.
See also
* Isle of Wight
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revenant Noun
( en noun)
Someone who returns from a long absence.
* 1886 , Mrs Lynn Linton, Paston Carew'' viii, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
- They would not visit this undesirable revenant with his insolent wealth and discreditable origin.
* 1895 August 31, Daily News'' 4/7, as cited in the ''Oxford English Dictionary , volume 8 part 1, published 1914, page 595:
- The undergraduates, our fogey revenant observes, look much as they did.., in outward aspect.
* 2008 , Andrew Cusack, Wanderer in 19th-Century German Literature , Camden House, ISBN 978-1-57113-386-1, page 91 :
- From this moment on, the hero's fate is sealed; an attempt to reestablish himself in human society, though initially successful, inevitably fails. The stone tablet exerts an invincible fascination over the revenant , who becomes so withdrawn that his father implores him:
A person or thing reborn.
* 2007 , John Burrow, A History of Histories , Penguin 2009, page 184:
- Sometimes semi-identifications could be made on the basis of names. Henry VII's son Arthur was hailed as a revenant in this way.
A supernatural being that returns from the dead; a zombie or ghost.
* {{quote-book, 1969, , edition=2008 ed. citation
, passage=Earlier you mentioned a ghost, a revenant with which we may contaminate the Emperor.}}
Synonyms
* See also
Adjective
( en adjective)
* 1988 , (Salman Rushdie), (The Satanic Verses) , Random House (2008), page 134:
- On clear nights when the moon was full, she waited for its shining revenant ghost.
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