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goblinry en · NOUN

Etymology

From goblin + -ry.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The doings or character of goblins.
   • These [illuminated shrines] are good ghostly company for him;— […] they appear to cheer him voicelessly as he strides from gloom to gloom, under the goblinry of those woods which tower black as ebony under the stars.... 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, “La Guiablesse”, in Two Years in the French West Indies, New York: Harper, page 185:
   • tales of goblinry
   • 1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276, But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?
   • There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry. 1938, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Maze of Maâl Dweb”, in A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, published 1988, page 254:

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