goblinry

English

Etymology

goblin +‎ -ry

Noun

goblinry (countable and uncountable, plural goblinries)

  1. The doings or character of goblins.
    tales of goblinry
    • 1830, Walter Scott, The Doom of Devorgoil Act III, Scene 1, in Lyrics, Dramas and Miscellaneous Pieces, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1875, p. 276,
      But is there nothing, then, save rank imposture, / In all these tales of goblinry at Devorgoil?
    • 1890, Lafcadio Hearn, “La Guiablesse”, in Two Years in the French West Indies‎, New York: Harper, page 185:
      These [illuminated shrines] are good ghostly company for him;— […] they appear to cheer him voicelessly as he strides from gloom to gloom, under the goblinry of those woods which tower black as ebony under the stars....
    • 1938, Clark Ashton Smith, “The Maze of Maâl Dweb”, in A Rendezvous in Averoigne: Best Fantastic Tales of Clark Ashton Smith‎, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House Publishers, published 1988, page 254:
      There were quaint paths, pillared with antic trees, latticed with drolly peering faces of extravagant orchids, that led the seeker to hidden, surprising bowers of goblinry.

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