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English
Etymology
Variant of scathe.
Pronunciation
Noun
scath (countable and uncountable, plural scaths)
- (UK dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”)
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Wherein Rome hath done you any scath,
Let him make treble satisfaction.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 18:Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, / Whose freedome shall thee turne to greatest scath.
c. 1847, Lydia H. Sigourney, Advertisement of a Lost Day:Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair.
1827, Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam:He buried in his heart all sense of scath.
Verb
scath (third-person singular simple present scaths, present participle scathing, simple past and past participle scathed)
- Archaic form of scathe.
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 Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :This trick may chance to scath you.
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