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saught

saught noun: reconciliation; peace; ease.

Noun

saught (uncountable)

  1. (UK, archaic, dialectal) Reconciliation; peace; ease.

Verb

saught (third-person singular simple present saughts, present participle saughting, simple past and past participle saughted)

  1. (UK, ambitransitive, dialectal) To reconcile; become reconciled.

Adjective

saught (comparative more saught, superlative most saught)

  1. (UK, dialectal) Reconciled; agreed; at one.

Forms of saught

Noun
alternative formsaucht
Verb
third-person singular presentsaughts
present participlesaughting
past participlesaughted
pastsaughted
Adjective
comparativemore saught
superlativemost saught

Origin of saught

From Middle English saughte, seihte, from Old English saht, seaht, seht (“settlement, arrangement, agreement, terms arranged between two parties by an umpire, a peace between two powers, friendship, peace”), from Proto-Germanic *sahtiz (“reproach, agreement, reconciliation”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek, trace”). Cognate with Old Norse sátt, sætt (“covenant, agreement, settlement, reconciliation”).

Questions about saught

What does saught mean?
Saught means reconciliation; peace; ease.
What part of speech is saught?
Saught can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.

Words near saught in the dictionary

  1. Saugerties
  2. saugh
  3. Saughall
  4. Saughall and Shotwick Park
  5. saughs
  6. saught
  7. Saughton
  8. Saughtree
  9. Saugonian
  10. Saugor
  11. Saugus

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