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sprights

sprights is the plural of spright.

Meaning of spright

Noun

spright (plural sprights)

  1. (obsolete) Spirit; mind; soul; state of mind; mood.
    • Well may I ween, your grief is wondrous great; / For wondrous great griefe groneth in my ſpright, / Whiles thus I heare you of your ſorrowes treat.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 100
  2. (obsolete) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
    • And forth he cald out of deepe darknes dredd / Legions of Sprights, the which like litle flyes / Fluttring about his euerdamned hedd, [...]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 38, page 13
  3. (obsolete) A kind of short arrow.

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Questions about sprights

What is sprights the plural of?
Sprights is the plural of spright.

Words near sprights in the dictionary

  1. sprightliest
  2. sprightlily
  3. sprightliness
  4. sprightlinesses
  5. sprightly
  6. sprights
  7. spriglet
  8. spriglets
  9. sprigs
  10. sprigtail
  11. sprigtails

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