rathe
Americanadjective
adjective
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blossoming or ripening early in the season
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eager or prompt
Other Word Forms
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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With all the charm of rathe spring-flowers, they suggest the possibilities of varied personality not yet accentuated in the authors.
From Primavera Poems by Four Authors by Arthur Shearly Cripps
Whereof the effect be—faith That, some far day, were found Ripeness in things now rathe, Wrong righted, each chain unbound, Renewal born out of scathe.
From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Helen Archibald Clarke
Milton, in Lycidas, has— "Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies."
From Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
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
One example of the extreme obscurity may be given:— ‘Then rathe was beroom’d, as the rich one was bidding, For the guests a-foot going the floor all withinward.’ l.
From The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography by Chauncey Brewster Tinker
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