Goblinry
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Goblinry is a noun meaning The doings or character of goblins.
Meaning
The doings or character of goblins.
Example Sentences
tales of goblinry
There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.
These [illuminated shrines] are good ghostly company for him;— […] they appear to cheer him voicelessly as he strides from gloom to gloom, under the goblinry of those woods which tower black as ebony under the stars.
1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276, But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?
Word Forms
- goblinries
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include goblinism, goblin, gobliness, goblindom, gobbo, goblinmode.
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