errand-ghost
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Their simple directness of character may account for the well-nigh entire absence (as I said before) of all expression of religious hope. "God's Errand-Ghost," the Rider on the Pale Horse, has passed by that way, and one in the house — it may be the most loved of all, — is dead. There is no shirking of that bare truth, no attempt to soften it."
- "If that was really insulting, please don't be offended. I certainly don't think of you as my errand-ghost. Actually, I think of you as my friend."
- "If Jesus were not God, He would have told lede to not worship Him, just as the errand-ghost in Bring to Lightings did."
- "In regard of the previous question – do you also choose empty localizations deliberately? Is this to strengthen the fright for loneliness and silence, the same fright that the errand ghost of those haunted places feels?"
- "Death is not unknown to him, but she has perished / And her errand ghost wanders through the night."
- "The three errand-ghosts were all extremely ugly. […] The errand-ghosts then took the two souls back to Diling, deposited them at the wind-rain bridge leading into the village, and disappeared."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Old English
Word Breakdown
- Root: ǣrendgāst