Dictionary

scath en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /skæθ/
• (Southern-England) audio
• (Southern-England) audio
• /skɑːθ/

Etymology

Variant of scathe.

Meanings

1. (UK, alt-of, alternative, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”).
   alt of scathe
   • Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair. c. 1847, Lydia H. Sigourney, Advertisement of a Lost Day:
   • Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, Let him make treble satisfaction. c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
   • Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, / Whose freedome shall thee turne to greatest scath. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:
   • He buried in his heart all sense of scath. 1827, Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam:

Forms

Deriveds

scathful · scatheless

scath en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /skæθ/
• (Southern-England) audio
• (Southern-England) audio
• /skɑːθ/

Etymology

Variant of scathe.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, archaic) Archaic form of scathe.
   alt of scathe
   • This trick may chance to scath you. c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

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