Pronunciations
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/ˈlɛvɪn/
Pronunciation notes
- UK
Noun
Lightning; a bolt of lightning; also, a bright flame or light.
Usage- Archaic
- Countable
- Poetic
- Uncountable
- Examples
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His soul was like the night around us now, dark, and sultry, and silent, but lighted up by the red levin of wrath and torn by the bellowings of thunder-passion.
And forth rith al so leuin fares.
More examples (3)
[N]either blood in face nor life in hart / It left, but both did quite drye vp, and blaſt; / As percing leuin, which the inner part / Of euery thing conſumes, and calcineth by art.
[...] I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time – they or their seed might escape a fatal Ramoth-Gilead.
Never, elsewhen, from heaven when all serene / Fell there more levin-bolts; nor flamed so oft / Comets with curses fraught.
Verb
To strike, as lightning.
Usage- Archaic
- Intransitive
- Poetic
- Examples
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Tremendous bursts of electric discharge levined through the clouds or lit up their under surfaces and all the rain-soaked earth, […]