Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preterit and past participle of reave.
- noun Obsolete forms of rift.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imperative, past participle Bereft.
- noun A chink; a rift. See
rift .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
reave orreive . - noun A
chink ; arift .
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Examples
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One and lift j hairs, quoth. he, and one white; that white hair i» my father, and all the reft are his fons.
Works 1795
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They pay, one with another, one half of all that they make, for tranfporting and vending the reft, which is all expended in Britain.
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The firft caufc is a fhadowing of Forafmuch as the faithfull, do fpirituall reft, that is to fay, of our chiefcly necde hope and patience, fandificarion -.
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Another the glaring. of jo feet broad leads from the front of Much of this Teems appertaining to the houfe, and lies between two groves parade, and therefore I ain glad to leave of tall lime trees, planted in feveral e - it to dcfcribc the reft, which is all for qual ranks upon a carpet of grafs; the conveniency.
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• 'and black: the feathers on the crown of the head are black; the reft are a
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In case of keepping to reft, prease to move arse to light lane.
Move over Jersey drivers, Manahan takes on the left-lane lingerers 2009
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I escape alone, reft of brother, sire, and friends?
Orestes 2008
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So go; for I will to thy sister, Jocasta, at whose breast I was suckled as a babe when reft of my mother and left a lonely orphan, to give her kindly greeting and then will
The Phoenissae 2008
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They see thee, and me the hapless mother, reft of her children.
The Suppliants 2008
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The issue thereof will be grievous sorrow for thee, if to-day thou art reft of both thy sons.
The Phoenissae 2008
bilby commented on the word reft
What thou lovest well remains,
the rest is dross
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage
Whose world, or mine or theirs
or is it of none?
First came the seen, then thus the palpable
Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell,
What thou lovest well is thy true heritage
What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee
- Ezra Pound, 'The Pisan Cantos'.
February 13, 2009
Louises commented on the word reft
She looked illumined and transfigured and reft out of herself and all the rest of it. Cold Comfort Farm.
February 23, 2013