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Spright

//spɹaɪt// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood. obsolete

    "Well may I ween, your grief is wondrous great; / For wondrous great griefe groneth in my ſpright, / Whiles thus I heare you of your ſorrowes treat."

  2. 2
    A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost. obsolete

    "And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, [...]"

  3. 3
    A kind of short arrow. obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To haunt. obsolete

    "I am sprighted with a fool ; Frighted , and anger'd worse"

Etymology

Etymology 1

Unetymological spelling of sprite. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and esprit.

Etymology 2

Unetymological spelling of sprite. Doublet of spirit, spiritus, spirytus, sprite, and esprit.

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