Ill-scathe

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Harm; hurt. Scotland, UK, dialectal, uncountable

    "Then said Geitir: "I think you have much more excuse for considering this an ill scathe than you had the last time; for the other seemed to me of little moment. [...]""

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"Then said Geitir: "I think you have much more excuse for considering this an ill scathe than you had the last time; for the other seemed to me of little moment. [...]""

Etymology

From ill + scathe.

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