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Wight vs Revenant - What's the difference?

wight | revenant |

As nouns the difference between wight and revenant

is that wight is a living creature, especially a human being while revenant is someone who returns from a long absence.

As adjectives the difference between wight and revenant

is that wight is (archaic except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong while revenant is Used as an adjective.

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.
  • *:
  • *: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

    References

    * English terms with homophones ----

    revenant

    English

    (wikipedia 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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