scath
See also: scáth
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variant of scathe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /skæθ/, /skɑːθ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -æθ, -ɑːθ
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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:
- 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[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:
- This trick may chance to scath you.