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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Reftpart. pret. of reave.
Thus we well left, he better reft,
In heaven to take his place,
That by like life and death, at last,
We may obtain like grace. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.I, in a desperate bay of death,
Like a poor bark, of sails and tackling reft,
Rush all to pieces on thy rocky bosom. William Shakespeare.Another ship had seiz’d on us,
And would have reft the fishers of their prey. William Shakespeare.Our dying hero, from the continent
Ravish’d whole towns, and forts from Spaniards reft,
As his last legacy to Britain left. Edmund Waller.So ’twixt them both, they not a lamkin left,
And when lambs fail’d, the old sheeps lives they reft. Edmund Spenser.About his shoulders broad he threw
An hairy hide of some wild beast, whom he
In savage forest by adventure slew,
And reft the spoil his ornament to be. Edmund Spenser.
Webster Dictionary
Reft
of Reave
Reft
bereft
Reftnoun
a chink; a rift. See Rift
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Reft
reft, pa.t. and pa.p. of reave.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of reft in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of reft in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
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