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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Nightshrieknoun

    A cry in the night.

    Etymology: night and shriek.

    I have almost forgot the taste of fears:
    The time has been, my senses would have cool’d
    To hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair
    Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir,
    As life were in’t. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nightshriek in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of nightshriek in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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