w 4 r 1 a 1 i 1 t 1 h 4
6 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun a mental representation of some haunting experience
originBorrowed from Middle Scots wraith, first attested in 1513 in a translation of the Aeneid. The word has no certain etymology; it may be a transferred use of Middle Scots wraith, wrath (nominally "anger, rage", adjectivally "angry, wrathful"), thus connecting it to writhe and making it a doublet of wrath and wroth. The old Century Dictionary compares Old Norse vǫrðr (“guardian”).
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