Meaning of Scathe | Babel Free

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

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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