Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Preterit and past participle of reave.
- n. Obsolete forms of rift.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
Examples
“One and lift j hairs, quoth. he, and one white; that white hair i» my father, and all the reft are his fons.”
“They pay, one with another, one half of all that they make, for tranfporting and vending the reft, which is all expended in Britain.”
“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 -.”
“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”
“In case of keepping to reft, prease to move arse to light lane.”
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“The issue thereof will be grievous sorrow for thee, if to-day thou art reft of both thy sons.”
“I escape alone, reft of brother, sire, and friends?”
“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”
“They see thee, and me the hapless mother, reft of her children.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘reft’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Cold comfort farm again
cowdling, dormer, mullion, scullion, snood, snoot, scranlet, kith, oleaginous, lambency, dissever, loafing and 27 more...
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Past tense in -t.
Some words are always like this. Some only when British or archaic. Some are just fun.
built, spent, bent, spilt, spoilt, ruint, thought, caught, brought, wisht, pent, spelt and 74 more...
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Words
Just another sorting device.
oneupsmanship, surpassing, oak gall, transformational, carriage return, riddle me this, pilling, logger, steno, horehound drops, reft, gammaglobulin and 109 more...
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Words i had to look up
hermeneutics, flimflam, semi-parodic, motes, susurrations, phantasm, egregiously, monoglot, galluptious, exigency, agrimony, gibbous and 111 more...
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vocab
personal reference
concupiscence, conflagration, manichaeism, epochal, anhedonia, limpid, epithet, elegy, multivalent, chora, semiotic, subversive and 85 more...
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Rare words
Rare words I've come across in my reading.
hortative, tyrophillia, gowpen, parapet, alphamegamia, xerophagy, pyknic, cosmothetic, misarchist, conventicle, equinophobia, abderian and 16 more...
Tweets
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Louises She looked illumined and transfigured and reft out of herself and all the rest of it. Cold Comfort Farm. Feb 23, 2013
bilby
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'. Feb 13, 2009