shright

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noun

A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.

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Meanings

verb
  1. obsoleteparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of shritch
nounshright (plural shrights)

plural shrights

  1. obsoleteA shriek or shrieking; sobbing.

    cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From Middle English, preterite of shritch.

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