wraithn.

Brit.

/reɪθ/, U.S.

/reɪθ/, Scottish English

/reθ/

Forms: Also 1500s wrath, wrayth, wraithe, 1600s wreath.

Etymology: Of obscure origin.

Originally (and chiefly) Scottish.

a. An apparition or spectre of a dead person; a phantom or ghost.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun]

soulOE

huea1000

ghostOE

fantasyc1325

spiritc1350

phantomc1384

phantasmc1430

haunterc1440

shadowa1464

appearance1488

wraith1513

hag1538

spoorn1584

vizarda1591

life-in-death1593

phantasma1598

umbra1601

larve1603

spectre1605

spectrum1611

apparitiona1616

shadea1616

shapea1616

showa1616

idolum1619

larva1651

white hat?1693

zumbi1704

jumbie1764

duppy1774

waff1777

zombie1788

Wild Huntsman1796

spook1801

ghostie1810

hantua1811

preta1811

bodach1814

revenant1823

death-fetch1826

sowlth1829

haunt1843

night-bat1847

spectrality1850

thivish1852

beastie1867

ghost soul1869

barrow-wight1891

resurrect1892

waft1897

churel1901

comeback1908

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > wraith or doppelgänger

wraith1513

swarth1674

double-man1691

taisch1773

fetch1787

double1798

double-goer1824

double-ganger1830

fetch-like1841

doppelganger1851

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. x. 112 Nor ȝit na vane wrathis nor gaistis quent Thi char constrenyt for to went.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xi. 93 In diuers placis The wraithis walkis of goistis that ar deyd.

a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 658 Thy speach..is espyed, That wrytes of witches, warlocks, wraiths, and wratches.

1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 314 Chatham's wraith, in heavenly graith..cry'd, ‘Willie, rise!’

1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 306 In realms of death Ulysses meets Alcides' wraith.

1861 E. S. Kennedy in Peaks, Passes & Glaciers 2nd Ser. I. 170 She..died broken-hearted... Afterwards, in the still of the evening,..the damsel's wraith would enter the dairy department.

1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 288 While Winander, Fairfield and Rydal remain, to all visionary minds his [sc. Wordsworth's] wraith will haunt them.

1893 T. E. Brown Old John & Other Poems 44 While I.. Drift vaporous to the ancient sea, A wraith, a film, a memory.

1900 A. Upward Ebenezer Lobb 226 Tall, pale and hollow-eyed, with gaunt cheek-bones,..like a wraith from an extinct world.

figurative.1880 G. MacDonald Bk. of Strife 33 Duty's firm shape thins to a misty wraith.

b. An immaterial or spectral appearance of a living being, frequently regarded as portending that person's death; a fetch.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > wraith or doppelgänger

wraith1513

swarth1674

double-man1691

taisch1773

fetch1787

double1798

double-goer1824

double-ganger1830

fetch-like1841

doppelganger1851

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xi. 127 Thydder went this wrath or schaddo of Ene.

1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie iii. i. 60 These kindes of spirites, when they appeare in the shaddow of a person..to die, to his friendes,..are called Wraithes in our language.

a1692 R. Kirk Secret Commonw. in M. Hunter Occult Lab. (2001) iii. 83 What the Low-countrey-Scot calls a Wreath, and the Irish éug or deaths Messenger.

1773 R. Fergusson Poems 94 I dreamt yestreen his deadly wraith I saw Gang by my ein as white's the driven snaw... I kent that it forspak approachin wae.

1802 W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. p. cxxxvi The wraith..of a person shortly to die, is a firm article in the creed of Scotish superstition.

1824 A. Grant Let. 19 Aug. in Mem. & Corr. (1844) III. 66 A wraith..is the shadowy likeness of an absent living person.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. xi. ii. 251 As the shape of the warning wraith haunts the mountaineer.

1870 F. W. H. Myers Poems 92 She and her love,—how dimly has she seen him Dark in a dream and windy in a wraith!

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 404 This is well~shown by the reception not only of a theory of ghosts, but of a special doctrine of ‘wraiths’ or ‘fetches’.

in extended use.1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. vi. 139 An opposition procession was there entering, headed also by men in black... ‘Is it our double?’ asked Shirley: ‘our manifold wraith?’figurative.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxi. 100 O hollow wraith of dying fame, Fade wholly, while the soul exults.

c. Without article.

ΚΠ

1884 E. Gurney in 19th Cent. 796 The coincidences of death and wraith are due to chance.

1898 H. Newbolt Island Race p. x O Strength divine of Roman days, O Spirit of the Age of Faith, Go with our sons on all their ways When we long since are dust and wraith.

2. A water-spirit.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > inhabiting water

lady of the lake1579

shoupiltin1711

wraith1755

nixie1816

undine1821

nix1833

Jenny Greenteeth1850

1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 30 You wou'd hae taen me for a water-wreath, or some gruous ghaist.

1801 M. G. Lewis Bothwell's Bonny Jane ii I hear, with mournful yell, The wraiths of angry Clyde complain.

1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 132 Wraiths and warlocks by the rush-grown mere.

1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) x. 203 Highlanders..cutting down their corn, when the boding voice of the wraith was heard.

3. An appearance or configuration suggestive of a wraith or spectre.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > something suggestive of

wraith1882

1882 J. G. Whittier Storm on Lake Asquam iii A fire-veined darkness swept Over the..range; A wraith of tempest,..From peak to peak the cloudy giant stepped.

1912 L. Tracy Mirabel's Island i Through the wraiths of scud he thought he had seen something.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as wraith-land, wraith-seeing, wraith-ship, wraith-spell; wraith-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [adjective] > resembling a ghost

ghost-like1573

spectred1791

ghostish1801

spectral1828

phantomish1832

wraith-like1865

ghosty1866

revenant1897

wraithly1909

1756 Yorkshire diary in Notes & Queries (1922) 390/2 For the warding off of all things whatsoever from the dead—be they imps, wraithspells, wick things and the like ket.

1865 J. Young Homely Pictures in Verse 126 Their leggies gat wraith-like, their cheekies gat death-like.

1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 405 In Silesia and the Tyrol the gift of wraith-seeing still flourishes.

1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 27 Apr. What challenges are prompted to the great..to come from their wraithlands!

1924 V. F. Boyson Falkland Islands viii. 181 Dimly as she came, so she passed away, as though in very truth the wraithship said to appear at every British naval fight.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wraith
释义	wraithn. Brit. /reɪθ/, U.S. /reɪθ/, Scottish English /reθ/ Forms: Also 1500s wrath, wrayth, wraithe, 1600s wreath. Etymology: Of obscure origin. Originally (and chiefly) Scottish. 1. a. An apparition or spectre of a dead person; a phantom or ghost. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] soulOE huea1000 ghostOE fantasyc1325 spiritc1350 phantomc1384 phantasmc1430 haunterc1440 shadowa1464 appearance1488 wraith1513 hag1538 spoorn1584 vizarda1591 life-in-death1593 phantasma1598 umbra1601 larve1603 spectre1605 spectrum1611 apparitiona1616 shadea1616 shapea1616 showa1616 idolum1619 larva1651 white hat?1693 zumbi1704 jumbie1764 duppy1774 waff1777 zombie1788 Wild Huntsman1796 spook1801 ghostie1810 hantua1811 preta1811 bodach1814 revenant1823 death-fetch1826 sowlth1829 haunt1843 night-bat1847 spectrality1850 thivish1852 beastie1867 ghost soul1869 barrow-wight1891 resurrect1892 waft1897 churel1901 comeback1908 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > wraith or doppelgänger wraith1513 wraith1513 swarth1674 double-man1691 taisch1773 fetch1787 double1798 double-goer1824 double-ganger1830 fetch-like1841 doppelganger1851 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. x. 112 Nor ȝit na vane wrathis nor gaistis quent Thi char constrenyt for to went. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xi. 93 In diuers placis The wraithis walkis of goistis that ar deyd. a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 658 Thy speach..is espyed, That wrytes of witches, warlocks, wraiths, and wratches. 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 314 Chatham's wraith, in heavenly graith..cry'd, ‘Willie, rise!’ 1808 W. Scott Marmion vi. Introd. 306 In realms of death Ulysses meets Alcides' wraith. 1861 E. S. Kennedy in Peaks, Passes & Glaciers 2nd Ser. I. 170 She..died broken-hearted... Afterwards, in the still of the evening,..the damsel's wraith would enter the dairy department. 1866 W. R. Alger Solitudes Nature & Man iv. 288 While Winander, Fairfield and Rydal remain, to all visionary minds his [sc. Wordsworth's] wraith will haunt them. 1893 T. E. Brown Old John & Other Poems 44 While I.. Drift vaporous to the ancient sea, A wraith, a film, a memory. 1900 A. Upward Ebenezer Lobb 226 Tall, pale and hollow-eyed, with gaunt cheek-bones,..like a wraith from an extinct world. figurative.1880 G. MacDonald Bk. of Strife 33 Duty's firm shape thins to a misty wraith. b. An immaterial or spectral appearance of a living being, frequently regarded as portending that person's death; a fetch. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > wraith or doppelgänger wraith1513 wraith1513 swarth1674 double-man1691 taisch1773 fetch1787 double1798 double-goer1824 double-ganger1830 fetch-like1841 doppelganger1851 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xi. 127 Thydder went this wrath or schaddo of Ene. 1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie iii. i. 60 These kindes of spirites, when they appeare in the shaddow of a person..to die, to his friendes,..are called Wraithes in our language. a1692 R. Kirk Secret Commonw. in M. Hunter Occult Lab. (2001) iii. 83 What the Low-countrey-Scot calls a Wreath, and the Irish éug or deaths Messenger. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 94 I dreamt yestreen his deadly wraith I saw Gang by my ein as white's the driven snaw... I kent that it forspak approachin wae. 1802 W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border I. p. cxxxvi The wraith..of a person shortly to die, is a firm article in the creed of Scotish superstition. 1824 A. Grant Let. 19 Aug. in Mem. & Corr. (1844) III. 66 A wraith..is the shadowy likeness of an absent living person. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice III. xi. ii. 251 As the shape of the warning wraith haunts the mountaineer. 1870 F. W. H. Myers Poems 92 She and her love,—how dimly has she seen him Dark in a dream and windy in a wraith! 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 404 This is well~shown by the reception not only of a theory of ghosts, but of a special doctrine of ‘wraiths’ or ‘fetches’. in extended use.1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. vi. 139 An opposition procession was there entering, headed also by men in black... ‘Is it our double?’ asked Shirley: ‘our manifold wraith?’figurative.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxi. 100 O hollow wraith of dying fame, Fade wholly, while the soul exults. View more context for this quotation c. Without article. ΚΠ 1884 E. Gurney in 19th Cent. 796 The coincidences of death and wraith are due to chance. 1898 H. Newbolt Island Race p. x O Strength divine of Roman days, O Spirit of the Age of Faith, Go with our sons on all their ways When we long since are dust and wraith. 2. A water-spirit. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > nature-spirit > inhabiting water lady of the lake1579 shoupiltin1711 wraith1755 nixie1816 undine1821 nix1833 Jenny Greenteeth1850 1755 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 30 You wou'd hae taen me for a water-wreath, or some gruous ghaist. 1801 M. G. Lewis Bothwell's Bonny Jane ii I hear, with mournful yell, The wraiths of angry Clyde complain. 1832 J. Bree St. Herbert's Isle 132 Wraiths and warlocks by the rush-grown mere. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) x. 203 Highlanders..cutting down their corn, when the boding voice of the wraith was heard. 3. An appearance or configuration suggestive of a wraith or spectre. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > something suggestive of wraith1882 1882 J. G. Whittier Storm on Lake Asquam iii A fire-veined darkness swept Over the..range; A wraith of tempest,..From peak to peak the cloudy giant stepped. 1912 L. Tracy Mirabel's Island i Through the wraiths of scud he thought he had seen something. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as wraith-land, wraith-seeing, wraith-ship, wraith-spell; wraith-like adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [adjective] > resembling a ghost ghost-like1573 spectred1791 ghostish1801 spectral1828 phantomish1832 wraith-like1865 ghosty1866 revenant1897 wraithly1909 1756 Yorkshire diary in Notes & Queries (1922) 390/2 For the warding off of all things whatsoever from the dead—be they imps, wraithspells, wick things and the like ket. 1865 J. Young Homely Pictures in Verse 126 Their leggies gat wraith-like, their cheekies gat death-like. 1871 E. B. Tylor Primitive Culture I. 405 In Silesia and the Tyrol the gift of wraith-seeing still flourishes. 1893 Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch 27 Apr. What challenges are prompted to the great..to come from their wraithlands! 1924 V. F. Boyson Falkland Islands viii. 181 Dimly as she came, so she passed away, as though in very truth the wraithship said to appear at every British naval fight. 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