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Spright vs Spight - What's the difference?

spright | spight |

As nouns the difference between spright and spight

is that spright is obsolete spelling of sprite while spight is alternative form of speight.

As a verb spright

is to haunt.

spright

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
  • * Spenser
    • the high heroic spright
  • * Spenser
    • Wondrous great grief groweth in my spright .
  • (obsolete) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
  • * Spenser
    • Forth he called, out of deep darkness dread, / Legions of sprights .
  • * Fairfax
    • To thee, O Father, Son, and Sacred Spright .
  • (obsolete) A kind of short arrow.
    • (Francis Bacon)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To haunt.
    • (Shakespeare)

    spight

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation
    • , passage=Her doubtfull words made that redoubted knight Suspect her truth: yet since no' untruth he knew, Her fawning love with foule disdainefull spight 475 He would not shend; but said, Deare dame I rew, That for my sake unknowne such griefe unto you grew. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1706, author=Various, title=The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony= Responses from Men, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=When I found Cuckolds to Encrease apace, I Marry'd one with such an Ugly Face That one wou'd thought the Devil wou'd but grotch So foul a Figure as my Wife to touch; Yet being at a Friendly Club one Night, A Raskal came and Cuckol'd me for spight . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1768, author=Susannah Minific Gunning, title=Barford Abbey, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=--Nothing did I enjoy on the road;--in spight of my endeavours, tears stream'd from my eyes incessantly;--even the fine prospects that courted attention, pass'd unnotic'd. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1789, author=Hester Lynch Piozzi, title=Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There was music; and the door being left at jar, as we call it, I watched the wretched servant who staid in the antichamber, and found that he was listening in spight of sorrow and starving. }}