scath
See also: scáth
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Variant of scathe.
Noun
scath (countable and uncountable, plural scaths)
- (UK dialectal, archaic) Alternative form of scathe (“harm; damage”)
- Shakespeare
- Wherein Rome hath done you any scath, / Let him make treble satisfaction.
- Spenser
- Great mercy, sure, for to enlarge a thrall, / Whose freedom shall thee turn to greatest scath.
- Lydia H. Sigourney
- Scath and loss / That man can ne'er repair.
- Mary Howitt, The Desolation of Eyam
- He buried in his heart all sense of scath.
- Shakespeare
Verb
scath (third-person singular simple present scaths, present participle scathing, simple past and past participle scathed)