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Wednesday Word: eldritch
Oct. 23rd, 2024 02:47 pmWednesday's word is one of my favorite seasonal words...
...eldritch.
adjective
strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear
origin
perhaps from Middle English elfriche fairyland, from Middle English elf + riche kingdom, from Old English rīce
examples
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
Berwin gave a kind of eldritch shriek and stepped back a pace, as though to place himself on his guard. The Silent House Fergus Hume 1895
...eldritch.
adjective
strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear
origin
perhaps from Middle English elfriche fairyland, from Middle English elf + riche kingdom, from Old English rīce
examples
And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone.
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
Berwin gave a kind of eldritch shriek and stepped back a pace, as though to place himself on his guard. The Silent House Fergus Hume 1895