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shrights

shrights is the plural of shright.

Meaning of shright

Noun

shright (plural shrights)

  1. (obsolete) A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.
    • cruell Sprights, / That with their pitteous cryes, and yelling shrights, / They made the further shore resounden wide [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about shrights

What is shrights the plural of?
Shrights is the plural of shright.

Words near shrights in the dictionary

  1. shrift fathers
  2. shriftfather
  3. shriftfathers
  4. shrifts
  5. shright
  6. shrights
  7. Shrigley
  8. shrike
  9. shrike-babbler
  10. shrike-flycatcher
  11. shrike-flycatchers

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