rathe
Americanadjective
adjective
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blossoming or ripening early in the season
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eager or prompt
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Etymology
Origin of rathe
before 900; Middle English; Old English hræth, hræd quick, active; cognate with Dutch rad, Old Norse hrathr
Example Sentences
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Milton describes them as dying forsaken: Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies: and Mayne calls this flower Lorn tenant of the peaceful glade, Emblem of virtue in the shade.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 542, April 14, 1832 by Various
Associated with the vernal prime And widely known as "rathe," why bloom so late?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-10-06 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
In that he is precocious, and, like the rathe primrose, will "forsaken die."
From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
Milton's— And the rathe primrose that forsaken dies.
From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Drink is the dainty harvester; no puny ears for him, no faint and bending stalks: he reaps the rathe corn, and there is only the choicest of the choice in his sheaves.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
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