Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
wolfish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Wolfish.
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- adjective Alternative form of
wolfish .
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Examples
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The heavy black snow is coming down harder now and the wolvish things are howling in the distance.
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Eventually they are liberated by, as is usually the case with Blake, a "vision," one in which they see their daughter living in paradisiacal peace in the wild (where Blake's fearsome tyger lives); compelled by their vision, they remain in the wild themselves, which is in fact an island of innocence: "to this day they dwell/In a lonely dell/Nor fear the wolvish howl,/Nor the lions growl."
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A Scylla, barking wolvish at the loins 'last verge,
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A Scylla, barking wolvish at the loins 'last verge,
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His demon eyes were pleading, and his voice was tender, even as it twisted in a wolvish growl, the voice of her beloved.
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Simon roared, human voice becoming wolvish howl as he transformed.
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His demon eyes were pleading, and his voice was tender, even as it twisted in a wolvish growl, the voice of her beloved.
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Simon had never seen himself in wolvish form, but he imagined this beast could have been his twin.
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Simon roared, human voice becoming wolvish howl as he transformed.
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Simon had never seen himself in wolvish form, but he imagined this beast could have been his twin.
hernesheir commented on the word wolvish
wolfish
November 24, 2010
milosrdenstvi commented on the word wolvish
No doubt as in "flay thy wolvish visage".
November 24, 2010