Wraith vs Swarth - What's the difference?
wraith | swarth |
A ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death.
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* Herman Melville
* Cowper
An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
As nouns the difference between wraith and swarth
is that wraith is a ghost or specter, especially seen just after a person's death while swarth is .As a adjective swarth is
(archaic) swarthy.wraith
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=We might indeed have been the wraiths of the departed dead upon the dead sea of that dying planet for all the sound or sign we made in passing. }}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* wraithish * wraithful * wraithlikeSee also
* (wikipedia "wraith")swarth
English
Noun
- Last year's scythes flung down, and left in the half-cut swarths .
- Grassy swarth , close cropped by nibbling sheep.
- (Grose)