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eldritch
[ el-drich ]
adjective
- eerie; weird; spooky.
eldritch
/ ˈɛldrɪtʃ /
adjective
- poetic.unearthly; weird
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of eldritch1
C16: perhaps from Old English ælf elf + rīce realm; see rich
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Example Sentences
The injured and indignant animal gave vent to a succession of eldritch screams.
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And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone.
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The gossipy gables of the old houses lean toward each other like peaked eldritch faces in fluted red caps.
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An eldritch laugh at a little window, which communicated with the street, at this moment electrified the speaker.
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I thought as I came alang I had a sort of a feeling as of a wraith nigh about me—a lang, eldritch sort o' a form i' the mist.'
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