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scathefire

noun

Etymology

From scathe + fire. Compare German Schadenfeuer (“fire damage”). See also scarefire.

  1. inherited from *péh₂wr̥✻
  2. inherited from *fōr✻ — “fire”
  3. inherited from *fuir✻
  4. inherited from fȳr — “fire”
  5. inherited from fyr
  6. compounded as scathefire — “scathe + fire”

Definitions

  1. Destructive flames

    Destructive flames; a conflagration.

    • Beneath their ruines: and these horrid sights / Lighted by scathe-fires, they that haue beheld […]
    • Richard II, in 1385, and Henry VIII, in 1545, each wrecked it, and after this last scathe-fire it was rebuilt no more.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA