Scathe

Definitions

1. Damage, harm, hurt, injury.
   British, archaic, countable, dialectal, uncountable
2. Someone who, or something which, causes harm; an injurer.
   British, archaic, countable, dialectal
3. An injury or loss for which compensation is sought in a lawsuit; damage; also, expenses incurred by a claimant; costs.
   British, archaic, countable, dialectal, obsolete
4. Something to be mourned or regretted.
   British, archaic, dialectal, uncountable

Equivalents

11 more languages

العربيةالأذى

Bosanskimal

Catalàdanyestrallmal

Danskskade

Hrvatskimal

Kurdîmal

Latinadamnum

Nederlandsschade

Polskiszkodauszczerbek

Српскиmal

Svenskaskada

Examples

“Therefore great Lords bee as your titles vvitnes, / Imperious, and impatient of your vvrongs, / And vvherein Rome hath done you any ſkath, / Let⟳ him make⟳ treable ſatisfaction.”

“[S]trong ale and noble cheere / t'aſſwage breeme winters ſcathes.”

“I red ye weel, tak care o' ſkaith, / See⟳ there's a gully!”

“Let⟳ us take⟳ the scathe and the scorn candidly home to us;—and try⟳ to prepare⟳ for doing better.”

“Now telleth the tale concerning the sons of Gudrun, that she had arrayed their war-raiment in such wise, that no steel would bite⟳ thereon; and she bade them play⟳ not with stones or other heavy matters, for that it would be to their scathe if they did so.”

“'Twas bull, 'twas mitred Minotaur, / A dead disbowelled mystery; / The mummy of a buried faith / Stark from the charnel without scathe, / Its wings stood for the light⟳ to bathe,— […]”

“The pride I trampled is now my scathe, / For it tramples me again.”

“They deemed it little scathe indeed / That her coarse homespun ragged weed / Fell off from her round arms and lithe / Laid on the door-post, that a withe / Of willows was her only belt; / And each as he gazed at her felt / As some gift had been given him.”

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