Both Uses
scathing
in
The Return of the King
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- For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people.†
Chpt 5.6 *unscathed = not severely harmedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unscathed means not and reverses the meaning of scathed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- These three were unscathed, for such was their fortune and the skill and might of their arms, and few indeed had dared to abide them or look on their faces in the hour of their wrath.†
Chpt 5.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(scathing) to severely harm -- especially by fire or through criticism
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)