Meaning of smite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A heavy strike with a weapon, tool, or the hand.
   archaic, rare
2. A river in Nottinghamshire, with its headwaters in Leicestershire, England, which joins the River Devon, near Shelton.

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Examples

“On the other hand , your soft-headed, softhearted sentimentalist, whose heart is in his waistcoat pocket, always at hand for use, he who picks out the pretty parts of modern novels, and the tender parts of affecting tales, never hears of two young people meeting one another, but he begins to think that a smite must follow.”

“‘That is just what I was about to venture to propose,’returned the doctor with a smite. But the words were hardly uttered, before the smile was struck out of his face and succeeded by an expression of such abject terror and despair, as froze the very blood of the two gentlemen below.”

“Beale, who had not been driving very well, took a smite at his ball and sent it curving far away to the left into a mess of gorse of bramble bushes.”

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