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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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
They quitte him out to rathe; 205 O nyce world, lo, thy discrecioun!
From Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
And we have "rathe and late," in a pastoral in Davidson's Poems, 4th edit.,
From Notes and Queries, Number 186, May 21, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Thou murmurest, too, divinely stirred, 110 The aspirations unattained, The rhythms so rathe and delicate, They bent and strained And broke, beneath the sombre weight Of any airiest mortal word.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
"No; I can't rathe you up a hill, though I can fall down the hill fathter than you can, but I will help you up."
From The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills The Missing Pilot of the White Mountains by Janet Aldridge
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