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Fey  adj.  Fated; doomed. (Old Eng. & Scot.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Fey" Quotes from Famous Books



... battle raged anew, with all the odds against the small handful of French, who knew they were doomed, and fought as though they were "fey."[13] ...
— Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race • Maud Isabel Ebbutt

... I was "fey" that night, as the Scotch say, when an unaccountable lightness of mood precedes a heavy sorrow, which it so often does, as well as the more usual mood, the presage of gloom. I felt that I had the power to put aside all ills—to grapple with my fate, and compel back my lost happiness. Truly my ...
— Miriam Monfort - A Novel • Catherine A. Warfield

... gayety of heart and then ride on his way, singing some Cavalier song, till Grimond, who kept away from his master those days and rode among the troopers, would shake his head, and say to himself, "God grant he be not fey" (possessed). Dundee would continue in high spirits till the evening shadows began to fall, and then the other shadow would lengthen across his soul. The night before he met his wife he spent in Glamis Castle, and the grim, austere beauty ...
— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren



Words linked to "Fey" :   elfin, supernatural, insane



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