2. Verb. (obsolete form of quit) ¹
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Definition of Quight
1. to depart from [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quight
Literary usage of Quight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"To quight, or QUITE, ». To disengage, or set free. ... To QUITE, or quight, is
also used for to requite, both by Spenser and Fairfax. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... quight, [thought, That all his substance was consum'd to nought, And nothing
left but like an aery spright; That on the rockes he fell so flit aod light ..."
3. The Works of Edmund Spenser by Edmund Spenser, John Wesley Hales (1893)
"... in sory quight, [plight. LIII So scone as he the Prison-dore did pas, He ran
as fast as both his feet could beare, And never looked who behind him was, ..."
4. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"All things are quight out of their queu! No greenish grasse on ground doth grow,
the earth no moisture soupes, The rine withouten any sap his drowsy head ..."
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