marshlight
marshlight is the alternative form of marsh light.
Meaning of marsh light
Noun
marsh light (plural marsh lights)
- A will o' the wisp.
- A delusion, a false hope.
- "Thus, even thus, have I lived for full two thousand years - for some six and sixty generations, as ye reckon time - in a Hell, as thou callest it - tormented by the memory of a crime, tortured day and night with an unfulfilled desire - without companionship, without comfort, without death, and led...1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC
Forms of marshlight
| plural | marshlights |
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Questions about marshlight
- What is marshlight the alternative form of?
- Marshlight is the alternative form of marsh light.
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