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wisht | wight |

As a verb wisht

is past tense of wish.

As a noun wight is

a living creature, especially a human being.

As an adjective wight is

(archaic except in dialects) Brave, valorous, strong.

wisht

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (wish)
  • * Vicars, Virgil
    • Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.

    Synonyms

    * wished

    Anagrams

    * *

    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

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